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Mean Joe Green #7: The Polar Bears are Finding out the Hard Way.

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 4/25/08
Melting ice makes life difficult for those who live on it. Just ask the Polar Bear. There are endless signs of the reality of climate change (global warming). Few more definitive than the plight of the polar bear.

There’s great info in this Treehugger article by our very own Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, and the NRDC has created polarbearSOS.org so you can get involved and stay informed about the reality of climate change as it relates to the polar bear.

Mean Joe Green #6: Hug ‘em While You Can!

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 4/19/08
The National Resource Defense Council keeps a Bush Record here. I was reading the section on National Forests and Roadless Areas and was relieved to think his reign of environmental destruction will soon come to an end.
Then I thought–damn, he did a lot of damage in 8 years!!!
Then I thought of this…
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Mean Joe Green #5: “Big Oil and The Loggers” Continue to Play to a Sellout Crowd

…while Mother Nature plays the streets for chump change.
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 4/11/08

Even in this economic down turn, oil companies are still making record profits!

Is it sad that I dream of a day when we are exploited by the renewable energy industry?
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Mean Joe Green #4: After All, They Do it to the Native Americans!

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 4/6/08This cartoon popped in my head after reading colleague Tim Hurst’s article “Feds Issue Waiver of Environmental Rules for Border Fence” in Red Green and Blue last week.

Other motivation for this cartoon comes from the historical (and current) treatment of native Americans, and this unsourced quote from MAD Magazine: “The suburbs are where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them!”
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Mean Joe Green #3: ‘Clean’ Coal!?

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 3/29/08
Both of our “green” democratic candidates were recently heard stumping for “clean” coal technologies! I have two big problems with this: 1. There is no such thing as “clean” coal (see #2), And, 2. We are decades away from clean “coal” technology being widely deployed anyway. In the same amount of time we could deploy an arsenal of solar and wind farms that could give us a similar amount of electricity without the mercury, carbon, and particulate pollution. All the while, keeping our mountains in tact!

“Clean” Coal is a joke — so this cartoon pretty much writes itself…

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Mean Joe Green#2: Things Can ALWAYS Get Worse!

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 3/22/08
This cartoon was inspired by Bush’s recent intervention to weaken limits of smog-forming ozone in our air.

John Walke, the Clean Air director for the National Resources Defense Council, called the intervention an “unprecedented and unlawful act of political interference”.

With all due respect Mr. Walke, after the past 7 years unprecedented and unlawful moves seem to be the norm.

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Mean Joe Green #1: Putting the P in GOP

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 3/15/08
Editor’s note: Political cartoons are a staple of editorial pages and other websites focused on politics, and we’re delighted to bring you the first of our own series of cartoons from our own “Mean Joe Green” Mohr.

Of course, we greenies would love a presidential candidate that took a strong-handed, common sense approach to addressing the myriad of environmental issues facing the planet, and did so with the energy and intensity it deserves.

We don’t.

But we do have these three…

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