Energy: Citizens Against Global Warming
Following meeting and consultation with the Energy Committee and the Board meeting of mid-August, a plan for action: “Citizens Against Global Warming” has been prepared. Its mission is to Confront Future Threats Now!
A draft plan has been sent to the Chester County Commissioners with a request for a near-future meeting to agree on or revise its proposals. Some seventeen suggested actions by or on behalf of the Commissioners, and eight for the task force itself are included. General acceptance of the plan is assumed, though not certain.
The plan draws inspiration from the current Global Warming groundswell stemming mainly from the Al Gore movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” It is heavy on educating everyone from schoolchildren to businesses, institutions and “plain” citizens. A major effort to recruit and prepare canvassers will begin as soon as the ink is dry with the Commissioners.
In the meanwhile, meetings are underway with the nine current members of the steering committee, including Pat Horrocks and Gene Wilson from the LWVCC. Much work needs to be done on organization, funding and legal status of the effort, in short constructing our infrastructure.
The effort can be expected to draw heavily on the League’s long experience with public education and on efforts to help achieve broad consensus in the citizenry.
Gene Wilson
