Commentary: I Can See Both Sides of Obama's Environmental Plans

Yahoo News asked voters to comment on President Barack Obama's climate change plan, which he largely unveiled in a speech on Tuesday. Here's one response.

COMMENTARY l In response to President Obama's environmental proposals to combat global warming, I am in a unique position in that I can directly see both sides of the debate. I live in a small town in West Virginia, "coal mine country," and home to two coal-fired AEP power plants, with another right across the Ohio River in view. The coal mines, the former top industry in West Virginia, have been closed already, which has resulted in thousands of jobs lost for families in this state. And while a lot of the union and power plant workers have found steady work during plant outages and keeping up with the EPA's new regulations on the scrubbers and more, thousands of workers face the inevitability of losing work around here permanently. One of the two power plants was just recently shut down.

I also know the effects of global warming on this planet. My geology professor was right when he declared that the devastation from global warming is imminent and inevitable. Obama is right that we need to act now. The president is on the right track with creating renewable energy sources in this country, and the only way to attempt to mend the damage caused by global warming, prevent future devastation (and catastrophe), and create jobs, thereby elevating our economy, is to see these proposals through.

Americans, along with the rest of the world, are going to have to evolve and move on to new and safer industries.

-- New Haven, W.V.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/commentary-see-both-sides-obamas-environmental-plans-000900511.html

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