Warming Is A Moral Crisis Equal To Civil Rights, Slavery Says NASA's Jim Hansen

As I have said in other Op-Eds, it will do us no good to attain our equality, only to be swept aside by global warming. Yes gay people will survive. But in the struggle for survival, our 2nd class citizenship will not position us to thrive or be a social priority.
Dr. Jim Hansen was given The Blue Planet award by Japan recently. His view, as perhaps the globes greatest and most activist climate expert, is that to not act now is a form of a intergenerational crime against humanity of the highest, or lowest, order. Our next generation will pay a horrific price in a global warming catastrophe, as he discusses in his book, Storms of My Grandchildren.
Many of us in the Stonewall Generation did it all for the next generation. This era requires a new marriage of our civil rights with the struggle for planetary protection. It seems daunting, but it can and must be done. And enviros must take the high ground and support the moral imperative of equality for all, in order to gain our support. Support the Green movement needs in the face of a very right wing, anti-


science, anti-nature, and anti-gay strategic thrust being acted on by the Republicans and Tea Party movement. We can, as a friend said recently, turn thier power against them by a united coalition of the very people they disdain. For the present and the next generation.