The purest and clearest Climate Change contest of the cycle is in southwest Michigan's 6th district, where House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton-- who has an abysmal lifetime Global Warming crucial vote score of 1.39 and who was dubbed the #1 biggest threat to planet Earth on planet Earth by the L.A. Times-- is fighting off a challenge by environmental activist Paul Clements. - See more at: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.hk/...
Sierra Club:
...Fred Upton has been fast tracking legislation to approve the dangerous Keystone XL crude oil pipeline ... Paul Clements has been an outspoken activist on the need to mitigate climate disruption, chairing Western Michigan University’s faculty workgroup on Climate Change and authoring a chapter on “The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change” in his book Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science.
That book shows Clements (whose
campaign website is here; and busy
Facebook page is here) to be a Progressive and interesting educator and thinker, who builds on the insight that:
our practical decisions are influenced
as much by our principles [which are] the cognitive objects of the sense of right,
as by our interests [which are] the main cognitive objects of the sense of the good.
Of course one does not need to be as smart as Clements to see that our principles and our interests overlap in taking the actions against Climate Change that Upton has been busily sabotaging.