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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Guardian: 'Decades ahead of his time': history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter [View all]
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Heres what people get wrong about Carter, Will Pattiz, one of the films directors tells me. He was not in over his head or ineffective, weak or indecisive he was a visionary leader, decades ahead of his time trying to pull the country toward renewable energy, climate solutions, social justice for women and minorities, equitable treatment for all nations of the world. He faced nearly impossible economic problems and at the end of the day came so very close to changing the trajectory of this nation.
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.....Carter was right on asking us to drive less, to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, to focus on conservation and renewable energy. Not only was Carters vision a path not taken, it was a path mocked. Reagan removed the solar panels from the White House, politicized the environmental movement and painted it as a fringe endeavor.
Carter was our only president who had a visceral environmental and ecological attachment. That was part of his being, Speth says. We had an opportunity in 1980 but weve lost 40 years in the pursuit of a climate-safe path. We can no longer avoid serious and destructive changes, period. That didnt have to happen.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/03/jimmy-carter-climate-change-carterland-film-biography
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The Guardian: 'Decades ahead of his time': history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter [View all]
kpete
May 2021
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Carter's Sec of Transportation ordered "seat belts in all cars" & saved tens of thousands of lives.
Stuart G
May 2021
#5
Not quite. It speaks as it did then to the effectiveness of the RW propaganda machine
Ford_Prefect
May 2021
#26
If we'd gone to renewable energy, then not so many Wars For Oil and dead people. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2021
#20
Not only have I always thought that JEC was a severely underrated President,
BobTheSubgenius
May 2021
#24
In a long and horrible history of sleazy moves, this one is a show-stopper.
BobTheSubgenius
May 2021
#45
"Carter was our only president who had a visceral environmental and ecological attachment. "
Ferrets are Cool
May 2021
#41