Hopefully David Orr will be in Obama's Cabinet

But just in case he's not, maybe Barack Obama is reading my blog!

The human condition is pretty funny, the way David Orr puts it initially, put then it starts to look pretty grim again. According to a source I can't cite, but David did, we have about 7 years to start the deflection of CO2 in the atmosphere downward. We've got to move quickly from 22 tons to 2 tons of CO2 per person in the United States.

It's all documented online. Mr. Obama, please read this today:
http://climateactionproject.com/

Mr. Future President, climate and energy policy are security, economy, health, and equity policy. We need a Green New Deal right now. If you and Congress start on January 20, 2009 and use your entire first term to green our infrastructure, you just might have time to save us from ourselves. Ask Van Jones if you're not sure how to get started.

A few things from David Orr to note:

• Clean coal is bullshit.
• Carbon sequestration is bullshit.
• The best way to sequester carbon is to leave the coal underground!
• Don't take the tops off of mountains, but windmills up there instead.
• Nuclear power is a very expensive way to boil water. And it's ridiculously dangerous.

And Barack, you've been a lecturer in Constitutional Law, so you probably know this. The rights of posterity are protected by the Constitution. Maybe you could put a few advocates the seventh generation on the Supreme Court!