In his AlterNet article "The BP Speech: Obama Still Refuses to Lead,"
Zack Carter (2010) wrote:
"There's no getting around it: President Barack Obama's speech on the
BP oil disaster was an overwhelming disappointment. Despite
confirming support for stronger regulation of offshore drilling and
developing a national clean energy agenda, Obama failed to offer any
policies to actually prevent the kind of catastrophe currently
playing out on the Gulf, and refused to coalesce around any specific
measures to wean the United States off of fossil fuels. Faced with
the gravest environmental catastrophe in American history, Obama has
indicated he believes sweeping change is necessary. It is equally
clear that he is unwilling to fight for that change."
Thus Zack Carter's answer to Bill McKibben's question "Can Obama
Seize the Energy Moment?" [Hake (2010)] appears to be NO! I agree
with him.
REFERENCES [URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/>]
Carter, Z. 2010. "The BP Speech: Obama Still Refuses to Lead: Faced
with the worst environmental disaster in history, Obama wants change.
He just won't fight for it," AlterNet 16 June, online at
<http://bit.ly/c93kor>, with 50 comments as of 16 June 2010
07:55:00-0700.
Hake, R.R. 2010. "Can Obama Seize the Energy Moment?" PHYSOC post of
8 Jun 2010 11:08:08-0700; online at <http://bit.ly/cNblj6>. To access
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