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Spiritual, Scientific Leaders Unite in Global Warming Action Plea

An unprecedented group of 31 revered spiritual leaders and respected scientific leaders is calling on the federal government and the U.S. Congress to take action that will protect Earth's climate from global warming. "Many of us share a deep conviction that global climate change presents an unprecedented threat to the integrity of life on Earth and a challenge to universal values that bind us as human beings," they wrote in a Plea for Action. "Earth's climate embraces us all," the leaders affirmed in the statement issued Thursday. They call for "moral vision and leadership" in addressing global climate change. "Resources of human character and spirit – love of life, far-sightedness, solidarity – are needed to awaken a sufficient sense of urgency and resolve," the leaders said. Without naming the current administration, the Plea for Action faults as inadequate responses to the "crisis" of global warming "policies that devalue scientific consensus, withdraw from diplomatic initiative, and seek only voluntary initiatives." "We recognize that there are other perspectives than our own, the leaders say, acknowledging that "Societies and governments respond slowly to such challenges," but also warning that, "Partisanship and acrimony have brought us no closer to solutions." The Plea for Action […]

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Time to Re-Think Electric Car Option

by John Valenti The signboard at the local Exxon station a few blocks from the Hicksville train station said it all: Regular $2.19.9 Plus $2.23.9, Supreme $2.33.9. These are the newest signs of the times in America – gas station signboards that seem more hazard warning than advertisement. You know: Outrageous gas prices ahead, rising daily, no end in sight. For more than two years now, Martin Marcus has given little thought to those signboards. Not even when prices soared through $2 a gallon. "Gas prices are absolutely crazy," Marcus said. "I'd just pass a gas station and wave. " He'd wave – or thumb his nose – because his wife works three blocks from home. And because for the last two years Marcus has used an electric car as his so-called "station car" – the car he drove between his home on Rim Lane and the Long Island Rail Road station on Route 106 in Hicksville. The 60-year-old promotion company executive from Hicksville was one of about 100 metropolitan-area commuters who, back in 2002, signed on for the "Clean Commuter Campaign" sponsored by the New York Power Authority. But now the first phase of the program is nearing an […]

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