The U.S. House narrowly passed a climate change bill today which imposes cap and trade.  Briefly, release of greenhouse gases is capped and companies that use less can trade their excess to others who want to pollute more.   The bill is very complicated with 1500 pages.  It isn’t a very good bill, does too little, and may not even be passed in the Senate.  However, many groups have backed it based on it is better than nothing.

This House climate bill is a great example of the influence of special interest groups.  Sure, the bill did pass but it was watered down to such an extent that it is no solution — at best, it is a starting point of a solution.  It puts in place infrastructure that could conceivably be updated over the years.  Likewise, it could go the way of fuel efficiency standards for automobiles.   When those standards were first passed it was clear that the U.S. needed to produce cars with better gas mileage.   We still do.  One update after another and those standards were circumvented to the ultimate demise of the U.S. auto industry.  GM bankrupt.   With climate change there will be no bankruptcy — it will be destruction.

There was a time in America when real solutions were valued — when people worked together with integrity for the greater good.  Those times have long passed.  There is no integrity.  There is no greater good when Republicans only love money.  There is greed and corruption.  There are special interests that will destroy the earth burning fossil fuels.  They will lie about climate change science to get their way.  Money is their only goal.

Obama wanted a climate change bill and he got one today in the House; however, even if it passes the Senate, it is nothing to be proud of.  In fact, America is in a lose-lose situation with this bill.  Pass it or not, it just isn’t enough.

America is doomed.