GP RELEASE Green Party: Victory by either Romney or Obama will be a global climate setback

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, September 3, 2012

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org


While Obama and Romney ignore global warming, Green presidential nominee Jill
Stein and other Green candidates promote real solutions

• Unless Stein can join the presidential debates, there will be no discussion of
fossil fuel consumption, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, hydrofracking,
mountaintop detonation mining, and other threats to the environment and public
health


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates and leaders said today that the delay
of the Republican National Convention in Tampa and hurricane Isaac's Gulf Coast
landfall should remind voters of a worsening crisis that both Mitt Romney and
Barack Obama keep ignoring: global climate disruption.

Greens expressed alarm over Thursday's news that the Obama Administration has
granted Shell Oil approval for dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean in a
fragile region off Alaska, especially when a critical oil-spill containment
vessel still awaits certification.

• Andrew Groff, Green candidate for US Senate in Delaware
(http://www.andrewgroffforsenate.us):

"Unless Green presidential candidate Jill Stein is allowed to participate in the
presidential debates, there will be no discussion of what we need to do to curb
catastrophic climate change. On one hand, Romney is appeasing the know-nothing
extremists and junk-science believers in the GOP who deny human responsibility
for global warming. On the other hand, President Obama has proposed minimal
steps to deal with global warming -- and then undercuts them by surrendering to
the corporate energy lobby, supporting off-shore drilling in US coastal waters,
repeating the myth of 'clean coal', and allowing hydrofracking and mountaintop
detonation mining to continue. All of these are immediate threats to public
health and the environment and contribute to the fossil-fuel consumption that's
pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The effects are
already evident in the drought and growing instability of weather patterns in
the US."

(See also "Climate Change: An Information Statement of the American
Meteorological Society," August 20, 2012,
http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.html)

• Martin Pleasant, Green candidate for US Senate in Tennessee
(http://www.martinpleasant.com):

"Jill Stein and other Green candidates are running on a platform that will put
millions of Americans to work and restore economic stability by combatting
global warming with new jobs in conservation, developing new and safe energy
technologies, retrofitting buildings and homes and redesigning public
infrastructure for energy efficiency, expanding public transportation to reduce
car traffic, a carbon tax as an incentive to promote safe and clean energy, and
other ideas. Obama and Romney keep talking about independence from foreign oil.
The real problem is America's addiction to fossil fuels, regardless of where
they come from. Only Dr. Stein is offering solutions."

(More on Dr. Stein's 'Green New Deal': http://www.jillstein.org/green_new_deal)

• Ursula Rozum, Green candidate for US House in New York's District 24
(http://www.ursulaforcongress.com), author of "Solve climate crisis to make
economy humane," Syracuse Post Standard, April 20, 2012
(http://www.greenpapers.net/?p=240):

"The Obama Administration has turned out to be a disaster on the global warming
front. He wants to banish the 2C goal (keeping the world's average temperature
from rising more than two degrees Centigrade) from international negotiations on
climate change (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19161799).
President Obama is also promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a new
international trade pact that will serve powerful corporate lobbies by
overrriding environmental protections and allowing more logging, drilling,
mining, and transportation of raw materials in the Pacific rim, as well as
weakening labor rights and imposing more restrictive intellectual property
rules. TPP was negotiated in secret and is supported by Mitt Romney. Greens
oppose it. There will be no discussion of these enormously important issues in
the Obama vs. Romney debate. A victory for either candidate on Nov. 6 will spell
more disaster for our planet."

See also:

Green Party Platform on Climate Change
http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2012/ecological-sustainability.php#ClimateChange

"Green Party to Obama: Whether foreign or domestic, it's time for America to cut
oil and gas from our energy diet"
Green Party press release, January 31, 2012
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=474

"Solar Utopia: Another future is possible!"
With articles and essays by David Schwartzman, DC Statehood Green Party
candidate for the US Senate, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Howard
University
http://www.solarutopia.org

"Framing in the context of fracking"
By Cecile Lawrence, Green Papers, August 29, 2012
http://www.greenpapers.net/?p=340

Green Party Eco-Action Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/index.php

"Climate change is here — and worse than we thought"
By James E. Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies,
The Washington Post, August 3, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-is-here--and-worse-than-we-thought/2012/08/03/6ae604c2-dd90-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html

"Who’s afraid of the big, bad drought? Romney and Obama say they want to help
farmers, but refuse to mention the cause of the drought that's hurting them"
By Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, August 10, 2012
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/10/whos_afraid_of_the_big_bad_drought/

"The TPP & the Environment: A Behind-Closed-Doors Deal for the 1%"
Citizens Trade Campaign
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TransPacificEnvironment.pdf

"Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign
Promises"
By Zach Carter, The Huffington Post, June 13, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html


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When in the 24th is Ursula Rozum?

Hi friends! Can you imagine Ann Marie Buerkle or Dan Maffei traveling our Congressional district by bicycle? Well, this candidate is has spent the last three days on a bike tour through parts of Wayne and Oswego counties - a hybrid campaign-vacation to get to know our district and to refuel  for the final push of this campaign. I've been most touched by the conversations we've had with farmers. Some surprised they have any apples and peaches at all and others now finally convined that climate change is a serious threat to our way of life here in Upstate New York.  This trip through the beautiful orchards of Wayne County and along the Lake Ontario shoreline has reaffirmed my commitment to organizing and working for the better world that we know is possible - we need policies like the Green New Deal to put our people back to work and to protect our beautiful planet. This past week our campaign has seen a flurry of media activity.  Yesterday, I caught up with YNN's Bill Carey in Wolcott NY to discuss the state's new laws against bath salts. You can read my full statement about ending the Drug War here. Earlier this week, I sat down with the Post Standard Editorial Board and also with Grant Reeher for the Campbell Conversations (we''ll share the link to the radio interview that once it's online). Please read and share the articles with friends and family so that they know that on Election Day there is a real choice on the ballot. I'll be back in Syracuse on Monday, in time for our Syracuse Greens monthy meeting - 7:30pm at the Center for Peace and Social Justice (2013 E. Genesee St.) Please join us - to meet local Greens and to get involved with the campaign! We can't build a people powered political movement without you!  Visit the volunteer page atwww.ursulaforcongress.com and let us know how you'd like to get involved! Or, give us at call at (315)414-7720. Please find the campaign on Facebook and share it with friends. We can't do this without you! See you soon! Ursula   Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Get Out the Vote! Help grow the Green party movement by helping to register new voters and to spread the word about our candidates. Contactbehumphrey@gmail.com to join the team! Host a Green Party House Party!!!  A house party is a great way to introduce your friends and family to the Green party and to help us build the grassroots base that we need to grow strong! To host a house party, contact Barbara:behumphrey@gmail.com. Participate in our people-powered campaign because real solutions can't wait! Visitwww.ursulaforcongress.comto volunteer, donate and spread the word. We can't do it with out you! Jill Stein for President, Cheri Honkala for VP Green women are unstoppable! Be sure to sure to check outwww.jillstein.org to learn about the remarkable women heading up the Green Party ticket across the country this year.

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