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Van Jones on BP Oil Spill: Drill, Baby, Still?

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Environmental advocate Van Jones reflects on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and what society must learn from the catastrophe.

"I've never heard of a wind slick; I've never heard of a sun spill," says Jones. "There's a better way."
Van Jones: Why Should Companies Get to Pollute for Free?

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Environmentalist Van Jones calls for a "serious" climate and energy bill to stop companies from dumping "planet-cooking pollution" into the atmosphere. "If you take away that right to pollute for free," says Jones, "you send a signal to the only force in the world that can solve this problem -- the entrepreneur."
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Alikar

Posted: 07.18.10, 07:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sokratez From the Internets: There's a lesson to be learned. "If you want to say batsh*t-crazy stuff and still be treated as a respectable participant in the national debate, you'd better be a Republican," gauged blogger Mark Kleiman after hearing the news of Jones' resignation. Why was Van Jones let go if he wasn't off the deep end? If he was normal this wouldn't have been an issue. He wasn't though, he is a hard core socialist and someone we don't want near the president or any type of power.

Sokratez

Posted: 07.15.10, 03:02 PM

Van Jones rocks! Alikar must have been watching too much Glenn Beck. That smear-campaign would be called propaganda, if done by so called "socialists" - maybe you think about that for a second... From the Internets: There's a lesson to be learned. "If you want to say batsh*t-crazy stuff and still be treated as a respectable participant in the national debate, you'd better be a Republican," gauged blogger Mark Kleiman after hearing the news of Jones' resignation.

pizzicatoiv

Posted: 07.15.10, 06:18 AM

did you watch the program before posting this comment? I found the program very thoughtful and inspiring, much more so than your comment, which seeks to denigrate from some presumed guilt (gasp! he's a socialist!). Bernie Sanders is a socialist, and is surely 'too socialist' for the Obama Administration. In any case, I'd love to hear him speak too. Maybe you should try to find commonality and curiosity rather than dismissiveness.

Alikar

Posted: 07.14.10, 03:43 PM

Really Fora? Van Jones? The guys who was fired for being too socialist for even Obama's Administration to handle? Mr. ACORN? Friend of the Apollo Alliance? *sigh*

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