There are big rumblings in the climate wing of the environmental movement. I felt them several weeks ago while reading this post ("Why are Obama and Salazar pushing a massive expansion of coal production") and thread. Much of the anger from CP readers was directed at President Obama. Comments ranged from looney (Obama is a manchurian candidate) to exasperation (Obama"doesn't get it"). But two major themes emerged from the 100+ comment thread: 1) betrayal (Obama is "not the man I voted for" and 2) punishment, as reflected by this commenter:
All I can figure is that Obama wants to make sure that environmentalists never vote for another Democrat again for the rest of their lives. I think it's about time that we contribute to and vote for politicians who are on our side.
Which brings me to this current piece by David Roberts at Grist, headlined:
Nothing will change until ...
