Climate Change Added to US Government "High Risk" List
Published on Saturday, February 16, 2013 by Inter Press ServiceClimate Change Added to US Government “High Risk” List
by Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - For the first time, a U.S. government auditor has added climate change to a list of issues that pose the greatest financial risk to the government and country. It is also warning that Washington is markedly unprepared to deal with the scope of the problem.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/16
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17:36: It's quite striking that, for a while, after the financial collapse, the super rich were kind of playing it cool, so they were trying to be not too ostentatious, but now it's over. The New York Times a couple days ago had a front-page article describing exactly this phenomenon: back to great parties, gala events, showing off how rich we are. Another article in the same issue said corporate profits have broken records, banks have so much money they don't know what to do with it. Well, you know, people may not know the details but they can see this. And they can see what's happening in their own lives. In manufacturing industry, unemployment's about at the rate of the great depression. I'm old enough to remember that. It was bad, but there was a kind of hopefulness. My relatives were mostly unemployed workers, but they were not desperate. They were poor but not desperate. Because it looked like something could happen. We could do things together, there's a better future. My seamstress aunts who were unemployed were in the garment workers' union and they got some benefits from that and they also felt that, there were also some educational programs, some cultural programs, they felt we could get out of this working together. People don't feel that now. And those manufacturing jobs are not coming back — not unless we have quite a different social order here. There's plenty of need for them. In fact, what's happening in this respect is sometimes almost surreal.
Look, the government effectively owned most of the auto industry for awhile. And the policies they were pursuing was closing down plants, just like GM had been doing. At the same moment, Obama's Transportation Secretary was in Europe, traveling around in Spain, trying to get contracts using stimulus money for Spanish factories to produce high-speed transport for the United States, which we desperately need, as anyone who has taken a train here knows. These things could be produced very well in Michigan and Indiana. Maybe not profitable for the bankers but certainly good for the workforce and the communities. But that wasn't even considered an option....