http://www.buzzfeed.com/cjlotz/obamas-inaugural-speech-rallies-campus-climate-ca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqFUyRjavc
President Barack Obama's surprising new focus on climate change galvanizing a nascent student movement that is trying to turn a university-based assault on oil companies into this generation's version of the 1980s campaign against apartheid in South Africa."I did not expect him to say anything about climate change," said Brown University senior Emily Kirkland of Obama's inaugural address. "I started jumping up and down and screaming. He spoke very boldly. He made it clear that it was going to be one of his priorities."Kirkland is an activist with Brown University's Divest Coal Campaign, one of the more than 200 organizations at colleges and universities whose students are asking school administrations to stop funding fossil fuel companies.
are you noticing the changes here and there? the new and recent generations are saying to the republican status quo seekers "it ain't that kinda party" we want to breathe and drink and have healthcare to help us with the already intrusive non regulations that have made us sick.
Mr. Beohner, "hell yes we can"!
"His words were ringing," environmental writer Bill McKibben, whose 2012 Rolling Stone article on climate change galvanized the divestment movement, told BuzzFeed. "We'll find out what they mean when he decides whether to approve or reject the Keystone pipeline, which is his first and purest test. And I hope they echo in the ears of college trustees across the nation, who need to understand that this is the most urgent problem we've ever faced."
Obama, who was quiet on the subject of climate change during his re-election campaign after losing a difficult battle over "cap-and-trade" carbon regulations during his first term, made it a central part of his second inaugural address Monday.
"Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms," Obama said. "The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it."
they will deny they want to keep us dependent on fossil fuels, it's money they know, they are already in the markets new energy would eventually close out antiquated polluting fels of old, if you don't move when the world moves you just sit there with your finger in your nose still digging.
