The implications of his upcoming decision remind me of a scene from the 2004 Hollywood disaster movie: The Day After Tomorrow (Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal), in which a US Vice President, upon observing the sudden, massive storms around him, turns reluctantly to his environmental antagonist-activist(Dennis Quaid) and admits "You were right".
Fellow green people: We ARE right. Or more importantly -- the laws of chemistry and physics are right. The time to act is now. Demand President Obama reject this "Most destructive project on Earth."
Noted NASA Climatologist James Hansen said that if the Tar Sands pipeline is approved, it will be "essentially game over" for the climate".
One spokesperson from the organization TarSandsAction, Russel Mendell, put it this way: "President Obama said, during his 2008 campaign, that he'd "end the tyranny of oil. We are now asking him to keep that pledge, and to ask himself one question: What side of history will I choose to stand on?"
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