Comments on: Now’s the Time to Call Your Senators http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2010/06/nows-the-time-to-call-your-senators/ Nourishment and inspiration for those who love the Earth Sat, 19 May 2012 00:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Anderson http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2010/06/nows-the-time-to-call-your-senators/comment-page-1/#comment-1844 Chris Anderson Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:20:11 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=2551#comment-1844 Thank you April and everyone else for organizing the vigil in Harrisonburg yesterday to express our grief over the oil disaster. We are at a tipping point ecologically, economically and socially. We have got to find more sustainable and safe sources of energy. We don't need any more proof than to turn on the tv and see the oil soaked wildlife and hear the utter dispair in the voices of conservationists and from the people who live on the Gulf. Use your voice to urge the passing of the American Power Act. Thank you April and everyone else for organizing the vigil in Harrisonburg yesterday to express our grief over the oil disaster. We are at a tipping point ecologically, economically and socially. We have got to find more sustainable and safe sources of energy. We don’t need any more proof than to turn on the tv and see the oil soaked wildlife and hear the utter dispair in the voices of conservationists and from the people who live on the Gulf. Use your voice to urge the passing of the American Power Act.

]]> By: Lucy Crane http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2010/06/nows-the-time-to-call-your-senators/comment-page-1/#comment-1827 Lucy Crane Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:29:20 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=2551#comment-1827 Thanks for the nudge, April. I need to get on this! Thanks for the nudge, April. I need to get on this!

]]> By: Joan Brundage http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2010/06/nows-the-time-to-call-your-senators/comment-page-1/#comment-1822 Joan Brundage Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:16:57 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=2551#comment-1822 Thanks, April. I am heading to my telephone now! Thanks, April. I am heading to my telephone now!

]]> By: John Cochrane http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2010/06/nows-the-time-to-call-your-senators/comment-page-1/#comment-1821 John Cochrane Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:51:56 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=2551#comment-1821 Hi April, Banking or Big Oil or Big Pharma buy their influence in what is or is not regulated and or funded. Then Senators and Representatives are less and less effective together with the responsible components of Administration and others responsible for ensuring regulations are updated and enforced. One way or another, regulations are diluted and regulators do what they do with the funding they receive and the means they have. Anger at Big Business doing what it does and making the rules fit their profit motives is justified. Anger also is justified at all those in Government and elsewhere who accommodate the excesses of Big Business and in turn accommodate and are accommodated by the lobbyists. Since the Earth and all life upon it is endangered by the misdeeds of Corporate power maybe Earth and all Life on earth should have lobbyists acting to ensure that we leave the Earth for following generations better than we found it. Sadly the political system is as it is and the will and power to change will depend on how many people pick up the phone again and again and again, Getting a critical mass and being effective will be a long process. John Hi April,
Banking or Big Oil or Big Pharma buy their influence in what is or is not regulated and or funded. Then Senators and Representatives are less and less effective together with the responsible components of Administration and others responsible for ensuring regulations are updated and enforced. One way or another, regulations are diluted and regulators do what they do with the funding they receive and the means they have.

Anger at Big Business doing what it does and making the rules fit their profit motives is justified. Anger also is justified at all those in Government and elsewhere who accommodate the excesses of Big Business and in turn accommodate and are accommodated by the lobbyists.

Since the Earth and all life upon it is endangered by the misdeeds of Corporate power maybe Earth and all Life on earth should have lobbyists acting to ensure that we leave the Earth for following generations better than we found it.

Sadly the political system is as it is and the will and power to change will depend on how many people pick up the phone again and again and again, Getting a critical mass and being effective will be a long process.

John

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