Hillary Clinton: McKibben tells Hillary why environmentalists don't much care for her

McKibben to HIllary Clinton: 5 Reasons Why Environmentalists Distrust You -- and How to Fix That
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FIVE REASONS ENVIRONMENTALISTS DISTRUST YOU 1)Climate change has not been your issue. 2)You were terrible on Keystone. Even before the State Department began its review of the project, you said you were “inclined” to approve it. That’s been your last public word on the project, but your team performed an intellectually corrupt review of the plans, your campaign bundlers landed rich lobbying contracts, and your former advisers took jobs with Transcanada. 3)You took the Obama administration’s affection for fracking and ran with it.Working with a deep team of oil company advisers, you set up a whole office at the State Department whose job it was to push fracking all over the world (Cambodia, China, New Guinea); you gave speech after speech in country after country. This was bad policy in the extreme 4)As the world’s top diplomat, you presided over the monumental failure that was the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009. Six crucial years were lost as a result. Enough said. 5) All that endless money. The right-wing attacks on the endless speaking fees and foundation gifts aren’t actually just a concern to the right wing. my bold It's no longer enough for a politician to state that climate change is real. It's necessary to back that with action...

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Though I was a rather strong and vocal supporter of Hillary's campaign in 2007, that was then and this is now. I have a lot more reasons than merely her environmental record that I disagree with, as well as a lot more doubts about and problems with her politics. To me, her environmental issues are merely the tip of the iceberg.

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