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The Richmond Times-Dispatch recently asked Virginia's US Senators, Congressmen, and Gov. McDonnell for their opinions on climate change.
Some of the responses are fascinating and give great insight into the politics that have thus far prevented meaningful action from taking place. There seems to be broad acknowledgment that climate change is happening (though not universal buy-in to the idea that humans contribute to it).
The real divergence comes when you get to the "What do we do about it" part. Opponent's of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, passed last year by the House, fall reflexively into "Cap-and-Tax!" mode without offering any real alternatives that would change the current dynamics of the energy sector to the point where real investments in renewable energy and efficiency would emerge. Assigning real cost to the environmental, health, and societal damage caused by the buring of fossil fuels seems to be necessary to shake us out of the status quo in which we find ourselves stuck.
What are your thoughts on how best to tackle the problem of climate change?
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