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1. Keep climate change at the forefront of people’s minds
Political theorist John Kingdon called this pillar of progress the “problems” stream. The public has order Flomax order amex only a few problems at a time that it focuses its attention on, and order Flomax order amex energy/climate must stay high on the public’s list of concerns for Obama & Co. to order Flomax order amex spend their political capital on climate change bills. With energy prices lower than order Flomax order amex the records of mid-2008, it will take work from climate and order Flomax order amex energy advocates to keep “Joe Sixpack” from forgetting about the Southeast’s gasoline shortages in September, the $4+ per gallon pump prices experienced just a order Flomax order amex few months ago, and the hotter, more erratic climate we are order Flomax order amex creating at our current rate of fossil fuel consumption. The key will be order Flomax order amex to show that climate progress will make us richer (cutting energy costs through efficiency and order Flomax order amex creating new jobs in renewables development, manufacture, and deployment). Only if climate advocates craft and order Flomax order amex publicize a bill that can help us recover from our recession (like an efficient cap and trade system) that converges the economy and energy/climate problems streams, will the US move forward in 2009.
2. Build political alliances to pass a climate bill
Kingdon called this pillar the “politics” stream. With Democrats generally more environmentally-inclined than order Flomax order amex their colleagues on the right, the election seems to have aligned the order Flomax order amex stars for climate progress in 2009. But alliances across regions of the order Flomax order amex US must be forged to ensure a majority of representatives in the order Flomax order amex House and a filibuster-proof critical mass of 60 Senators are on-board. For instance, the order Flomax order amex bill must show that one region will not benefit and leave the order Flomax order amex rest of the country with the costs. Increased support for research centers that order Flomax order amex help each region develop their unique resources (such as wind in the order Flomax order amex Great Plains, solar in the Southwest, and bio-mass in the East) can help gather the political support necessary.
3. Refine the policy proposal to actionable form
The Lieberman/Warner-style bill of 2007 (which I discussed last week here how to purchase Proscar online without a prescription buy Valtrex online cheap) will evolve through a order Flomax order amex committee process in each chamber over the next several months before it order Flomax order amex is ready for passage. While the bill’s general framework is understood (from order Flomax order amex its successful application in a 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment to order Flomax order amex mitigate acid rain from coal plants), there are order Flomax order amex numerous details to be determined. Federal officials will decide a percentage of the order Flomax order amex emission permits they would like to auction rather than give away and order Flomax order amex how exactly they will administer the revenue generated from the auction. Climate advocates will need to order Flomax order amex regularly engage this federal “policy” stream to order Flomax order amex ensure compromises among policymakers and lobbyists do not dilute the bill to order Flomax order amex ineffectiveness.
Once these three streams of problems, politics and order Flomax order amex policy converge, a window of opportunity will arise for climate progress. There is order Flomax order amex a danger that we may put off climate mitigation because of short-term economic concerns. Therefore, those of us who order Flomax order amex understand the devastating impact of runaway climate change must raise our voices. Our letters-to-the-editor, Op-Eds, YouTube videos, and order Flomax order amex public events are necessary to keep the low cost of action today from order Flomax order amex preventing us to address the high costs of inaction in the order Flomax order amex years ahead.
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