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Last night on BBC2's Newsnight, 'Ethical man' broadcast an item about political attitudes to climate change in the US. Obama is promoting a 'cap and trade' approach to reducing national carbon emissions saying "we need to make clean renewable energy profitable." In support of this policy the Environmental Protection Agency has recently been empowered to enforce regulation on carbon emissions. While it's tough to evaluate the efficacy of this approach it is was pretty surprising to see the evident difference in attitude to climate change activists taken by the US and UK governments. 12000 climate activists gathered in washington in an act of mass civil disobedience aimed at closing down the power plant that supplies congressional buildings. In one room activists were trained in tactics for civil disobedience, in another US cabinet members gave rousing speeches of solidarity and support to the protesters and against carbon-based energy business. Obama appears to have his shoulder to every possible wheel to get bills through Congress and Senate and mobilising protesters is just another of these wheels. There is something unnerving in this populist politiking but it is preferable to the preemptive attacks by police on peaceful UK climate change protesters. No?? :?? Ruth
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