DUELLING VIDEOS FOCUS ON US CLIMATE CHANGE BILL
01.1.08 - Leído 59 veces. Enviar esta notaDeborah Zabarenko
Duelling videos — one starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the other featuring a “typical” US family shivering in an underheated house — are focusing debate on a Senate bill aimed at cutting climate-warming pollution
WASHINGTON, US; January 1, 2008.- Schwarzenegger, the action star-turned-Republican governor of California, stands in front of a redwood grove and intones, “Climate change: it’s a test of leadership.” He and two other governors, posed in natural settings, urge viewers to press their senators to approve the so-called Lieberman-Warner bill.
The spot, sponsored by the Environmental Defense Action Fund, is being shown in 17 markets in 11 states and online (http://www.ed.org) in the run-up to an expected vote on the bill in the Senate Environment and Public Works committee. The vote could come on Wednesday.
On the other side of the issue, the US Chamber of Commerce shows a suburban family wearing scarves and coats indoors, huddling under quilts, cooking breakfast eggs over candle flames and commuting to work on foot.
“Climate legislation being considered by Congress could make it more expensive to heat our homes, power our lives and drive our cars,” the narrator says. “Is this really how Americans want to live?”
The message, delivered online (www.uschamber.org) and elsewhere and in hourly spots shown at Washington area airports: tell your senators to vote no.
Formally known as the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act and sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and John Warner, a Virginia Republican, the bill is the first on climate change to have got this far. Others have stalled before getting to a full committee vote.
The Senate bill aims to set up a federal program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power, industry and transportation sectors by 70 percent by 2050, without cutting economic growth or imposing hardship on US citizens.
To do this, it would set up a cap-and-trade system for the emission of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.
(Reuters)
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