Top Ten Reasons To Vote Against Proposition 23
10. To send the nasty Koch brothers a message to stay out of California politics.
9. To send the nasty Texas-based Valero oil company a message to stay out of California politics.
8. To send the nasty Texas-based Tessoro oil company a message to stay out of California politics.
7. To send Meg Whitman a message that California wants environmental leadership (just in case she’s elected governor).
6. To tell Congress that leadership on climate change legislation can be good politics.
5. Because the longer we wait to control our emissions the more expensive it will be to cut them later.
4. Because we need to send companies a consistent signal about what will be expected of them legally.
3. Because California’s environmental leadership can provide a model for the rest of the country to follow (as it has so often).
2. Because environmental leadership produces technological leadership.
1. Because cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the right thing to do.
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Ann Carlson is currently on leave from UCLA School of Law. She is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and was the founding Faculty Director of the Emmett I…
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Let me add #11: To show the next rich demagogue that whatever horrible reactionary idea they have is going to be just a little bit harder to make into a law: http://nemesisofevil.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/no-on-everything-2/
Additional reasons welcome!
The one I relied on in talking to my friends and family was that climate change makes people sicker and poorer, and because leaps of faith just might be the only way out of this collective action problem.
Because it will be nice to beat the Texans twice in one week.
#14) Ann Carlson is (almost) always right
#15) It will annoy bqrq (or whatever it goes by)
#16) We’re already adding enough hot air to the atmosphere this election cycle