Dianne Feinstein Comes to Berkeley!
Last Friday, Senator Dianne Feinstein graced our very own Cal campus with her glorious presence as part of a conference put on by Boalt to address climate change policy. Feinstein presented the conference attendees with five bills, all of which are designed to lower both future greenhouse gas emissions and the country’s dependency on fossil fuels. In between emphasizing the value of a moderate bill that can be strengthened and recognizing the fact that policy isn’t always perfect, DJ DiFi dropped some mad-crazy metaphors, declaring that “we are looking for the access ramp to the freeway for change,” and warning that global warming may be approaching a “tipping point;” sounds to me like the cow of the ozone layer is in some serious trouble! It’s great to hear that concerns about climate change are transforming into tangible policy changes, and that our campus can be the catalyst for these discussions and plans to be made!
The Daily Cal has more.
“cow of the ozone layer”
are you shitting me
As usual with Feinstein, I have a couple concerns.
First, passing a “moderate bill” that can be “strengthened” is not sound reasoning. What makes you think that you will be able to strengthen the bill once it is passed?
Second, I hope this is a different bill than the one she proposed last year, which would only decrease our greenhouse gas emissions by 7.25% by 2020. What this tells the rest of the world is that the United States knows about global warming but we really don’t want to stop it.
I’m glad that someone in Washington wants to finally take action to curb our contribution to global warming, but we need a lot more “umph” in our policies if we want to reverse the effects of global warming.
On a somewhat related note, recent studies have shown that even if the United States signed onto the Kyoto Protocol, it would not be enough. This just goes to show how much more attention and effort the human race needs to put in to stop global warming.