Climate change legislation continues to make its way through Congress. Although I understand there could be benefits from a cap and trade program, I still strongly feel that it doesn't come close to facilitating what's needed. I guess it really doesn't matter anyway as today some interesting news that Republican Senators are going to boycott work sessions on climate change this week. The Senator of Oklahoma is among those constituents. He has repeatedly attested to the "fact" global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people".
They are doing this as if the regular process in and of itself wasn't slow enough. That coupled with the actual fact that climate change and its numerous, widespread, diverse impacts is most certainly not something that can be fully halted, at least anytime soon, calls for a reading of this useful article from the online magazine Grist. It may not answer everything, but climate change is a definitive umbrella issue of ecology, society, economics, politics, as well as peace, justice and sustainability.
The only constructive action is to build solidarity so that every single person actually wants to be another cog in the chain for helping deal with something that has a dramatic affect on the total biotic community of Earth. And at least if this mentality is employed there will be positive change in some way and shape while real progress takes form.
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