Greens face a battle in California

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Source: Telegraph (UK)

Mark the date – November 2. It will see the outcome of the most crucial battle yet between the old economy and the new, between the fossil-fuel-powered industrialisation of the last two centuries that has enriched much of the world and the low-carbon prosperity that is needed in future. Indeed, it bids to be a pivotal point in the biggest economic transition since the Industrial Revolution.

The battle will take place in California, of course, where trends tend to originate, and where the environmental movement first took off more than four decades ago. It will focus that most bad-tempered of slanging matches, overglorified as the "global warming debate". And it will deliver much the most important popular verdict so far on what, if anything should be done to combat climate change – 10 years, almost to the day, after the election of George W Bush pulled the United States out of international attempts to address it.

For on that date, US mid-term election day, Californians will vote on whether to suspend their state's ambitious anti-global warming law that sets out to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2025, and 80 per cent below them by 2050. It also promotes the use of renewable energy and is credited with giving the state a worldwide lead in developing clean technologies.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/7855176/Greens-face-a-battle-in-California.html

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Copenhagen set the tone for this election.

Now a key Blue State with 12% unemployment will decide.

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1. The old slogan, "There are no jobs on a dead planet" comes to mind...

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