Even though the Obama administration seem unable to free
itself from the clutches of the Big Oil lobby, will the latest climate change
rally at the D.C. Beltway end the environmental deadlock?
By: Ringo Bones
Environmental activist spent months planning the event and
looks like the Sunday afternoon climate change rally in Washington D.C. urging
the Obama administration to adopt a more environmentally friendly energy policy
and to break itself from the clutches of the Big Oil and Coal lobby started to
turn out to be the biggest environmental rally in recent years. Even though it
is the biggest environmentally oriented rally on the D.C. Beltway in recent
years, what chances does it have of initiating a significant change of the US
government’s policy towards a more environmentally friendly and more
sustainable energy policy?
Back in Wednesday, February 13, 2013, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
and Daryl Hannah were one of the high profile persons arrested protesting the
Keystone Oil Pipeline over the project’s environmental impact and its ability
to offer true energy independence for America. And the Sunday afternoon US
Climate Change Rally in the D.C. Beltway are focusing their concerns over the harmful
environmental impact of the Keystone Oil Pipeline.
If the Obama administration manages to make a genuine change
on the US government’s energy policy towards a more environmentally friendly
and sustainable path, America’s carbon dioxide emissions would probably be
reduced significantly because latest studies show that 57 percent of the carbon
dioxide in our atmosphere can be traced to man-mad industrial processes of
crude oil and coal burning. The ball on climate change action is already on the
Obama administration’s court when it comes to moving away from unsustainable
and environmentally unfriendly fossil fuel burning to run America’s wheels and
engines of industry.
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