Jim, the fossil fuel folks and the guys at Fox news love people like you-you're really drinking their kool-aid by the gallon. Let's look at it point by point:

Startegy one: Deny global climate change-never mind that virtually ALL the researchers and authorities in the actual field of climatology will tell you the science is rock-solid. Deny it anyway. The sheeple WANT to believe, after all...

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Two: Claim that solar, wind, geothermal, etc are "impractical", "unproven", "too expensive", "not competitive" (and carefully ignore the huge wind farms springing up across the country, thin-film nano-solar that will be available later in 2010 and reduce solar electric costs by such a large percentage that it will make it competitive with current -and I might add heavily subsidized-fossil fuels, and the fact that the solar and wind potential of west Texas alone could power the entire country, were the infrastructure upgraded to permit distribution, etc, etc, etc....)

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Three: Call yourself an "Environmentalist", and claim that you are all for changes at some carefully undefined "future date" when such things will be "practical". Repeat as necessary.

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Four: When backed into a corner, grudgingly acknowledge past environmental successes, but paint them as "isolated instances", and not worth their "massive cost". After all, what good has a peregrine falcon ever done YOU?

CHECK and DOUBLE-CHECK

Honestly I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree here, my friend. But I'll bet Palin's 2012 campaign could definitely use you. You're her kind of people!
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Brad Chambers
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