When it comes to environmental and energy cartooning, there is no other major outlet’s cartoonists who comes close to matching the knowledgeable and insightful cartooning that Tom Toles brings to the pages of The Washington Post. As commented before,
With Toles, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But, he last won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1990. His cartooning related to global warming is top notch and merits viewership … and recognition.
The Democratic Party and the Obama Administration are loudly touting up their victories, their “historic” achievements from the stimulus package to health care to otherwise. As Van Jones noted in calling on the blogosphere to reduce its criticism of the Administration:
I can’t stand it. President Obama volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg
Yes. We’ve hit the iceberg. And, Obama faces serious challenges from a Republican Party that makes the ‘do nothing’ Congress that Truman faced look to be the epitome of thoughtful bipartisanship in seeking solutions to Americans problems. And, when it comes to movement forward on climate change, the legions and influence of Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Haters Of a Livable Economic Society cannot be exaggerated. Movement forward on climate change legislation has not been and is not an easy proposition.
However, this isn’t baseball where a .666 average is true Hall of Fame material.
But “solving” health care (okay, reducing problems & improving the situation, not “solving”) and “achieving” Wall Street reform (again, incremental steps, not nearly enough) simply won’t matter with much more significant progress to turn us (the U.S. and all of us) away from our fossil-foolish ways toward a sustainable and prosperous climate-friendly future.
Without serious movement forward, we’re not looking at Hall of Fame for America but a Hall of Infamy.
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