Today, John Edwards won a key endorsement from national environmental organization Friends of the Earth Action. He was in Dover, N.H. this morning to accept the endorsement.
Friends of the Earth Action enthusiastically endorses John Edwards for President. He has led the way among the candidates in addressing global warming and ruling out a new embrace of nuclear power. He has also demonstrated himself to be the top-tier candidate most likely to stand up to the powerful, corporate polluters and their lobbyists. After seven years of the most destructive environmental president in modern history, we feel strongly that John Edwards will fight for a healthy and just planet as President.
Edwards, who has an excellent plan to stop global warming, get us off our addiction to oil, and create a new energy economy, was the first candidate to commit to an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, and he is running a carbon neutral campaign. His environmental platform has been widely praised by environmentalists, and he won the MoveOn town hall on global warming earlier this year.
Friends of the Earth Action will run an independent campaign to educate their members and other environmentalists about Edwards' platform and to get people out to vote, particularly in New Hampshire.
Here's a video of the endorsement bye Friends of the Earth Action.
And here are John's remarks at the event, video by YouTube user guerillavlogger.
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Comments: 8
Seeing as you are posted as hailing from the Granite State, I never heard anything negative about the Seabrook Nuke plant. I
I don't comprehend why mankind should handcuff itself and not use an energy source that would aid us in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. One way or another we need energy.
BTW, I am not from New Hampshire and did not say I was. I posted a news item that occurred in New Hampshire.
Regardless, nuclear power is an option. It is not necessary to use breeder reactors, which produce plutonium. Our navy powers our subs and aircraft carriers with no problems, our state has nuke plants, we don't have any problems. If you really want to rid the planet of nuke waste, I see no reason why not dispose of it in space.
Putting up pinwheels and solar cells is not going to carry the load.
I never see any "environmentalist " coming out with support of advancing what at this point in time would be considered "exotic" energy producing methods.
I would like to know why.
Why not pursue fusion and fission technologies. Waste disposal is a problem? It is "that important" then to come up with a viable solution that doesn't include burying it. Maybe some method of neutralizing the radioactivity. Why can't we use our great computer and scientific powers to devise a way to render nuclear waste inert. That seems to be a worthy avenue to pursue.
Who would of thunk?
How about all the lefty loonies , stick their heads in sand already and stop trying to tell everyone else how they are going to live their lives.