[GPSCC-chat] McKibben on Sanders

[Gerry Gras]

FYI,

"Why the Planet Is Happy That Bernie Sanders Is Running for President"
by Bill McKibben

http://commondreams.org/views/2015/04/30/why-planet-happy-bernie-sanders-running-president

"Bernie Sanders isn't really running against
Hillary Clinton. He's running against the
Koch Brothers".

"First, he's a stand-up guy. When we told him about the Keystone 
Pipeline in the summer of 2011, he immediately set to work helping us 
block it. He strategized, he used his bully pulpit in the Senate to 
spread the word, and he devoted staff time to pressuring the State 
Department. Contrast that with, say, Barack Obama who was mostly silent 
about climate change his whole first term, and managed to make it all 
the way through the 2012 campaign without discussing it. Or Hillary 
Clinton, who after initially saying she was "inclined" to approve 
Keystone has gone entirely mum on the most iconic environmental issue of 
our time. Who showed up in New York for the People's Climate March? 
Bernie Sanders. Who said, straightforwardly in today's official 
announcement, "the peril of global climate change, with catastrophic 
consequences, is the central challenge of our times and our planet." 
That would be Bernie Sanders."

Gerry