Commentary: Real progress on climate change

More than 100 world leaders gathered at the United Nations for a meeting about climate change. They were called together by General Ban Ki-moon to build momentum for the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December. There were no breakthroughs in the arguments however, as well as no agreements made to try and cut back on emissions. But Timothy Wirth thinks that the talks have already started to have an impact. Although no international agreements have been made yet, and will most likely not be for quite a while, some nations have already made national goals to cut down on emissions to try and stop climate change.

I think that this is very good for everyone. Some nations like japan say they will be able to cut back on emissions by 2020, and many others will follow. Like everything in human nature, i believe that this will turn into a competition to see on who can become the greenest nation the quickest. However, the always leading and innovative US may fall behind on this race because other things have taken a front seat in current goals for our country such as health care and getting out of debt. Aside from that however, i believe the meetings in Copenhagen are very beneficial to the world, because the goals are to cut back on emissions and foresting, and increase green energy. Probably the most exciting thing for us is that the "go green" effect will most likely boost the global economy and help carry us out of debt.

Thousands pack D.C. to protest spending, taxes

This Saturday September 12th at the capitol tens of thousands of people gathered at the capitol in D.C. to protest government spending,taxes, as well as Obama's healthcare plan. Some examples of signs they had at the protest are "Obamacare makes me sick," and "I'm not your ATM." The protesters also included some chanting in their protest which included "enough, enough," "We the People," "You lie!" and "Pelosi has to go!"

I think that fellow Americans are right to protest the outrageous amount of government spending that is happening right now with the new healthcare plan in place. However I personally have never been a fan of protesting out on the street because it seems to me to be a giant waste of everyone's time that could otherwise be spent doing something that is actually useful. That being said, our country is in a never ending amout of debt and that needs to stop. Programs like Obamacare are the reason our country is in this much debt and that number will keep increasing as it has until we fall apart, unless we stop the nonsence, and focusing on reducing spending.