Duff Badgley
Biographical Information
Current Occupation/Employer: Former hospice worker, carpenter, journalist.
Education: BA, Political Science, Dickinson College.
Elected Experience: Candidacy approved, Washington Green Party.
Family: Two children, five grandchildren.
Significant Career Experience: Chair, Sustainability Council, Washington Green Party; founder, One Earth Climate Action Group; founder, Citizens’ Coalition for Trees; Sustainable Ballard’s first Car Free Project Leader.
Candidate Statement
Our Climate Crisis demands profound cultural change now. As in childbirth, pain will attend this change. We are birthing ourselves into a world radically different from what middle-class Industrial World citizens have known for a century.
We have badly abused our Earth. Now, the Earth is changing in non-linear ways. We cannot avoid this change. Our choice is to change voluntarily, or be compelled by our Earth to change.
Those leaders who sell the lethal notion that we can ‘prosper’ and avoid painful Climate Crisis change are false leaders. Reject them.
Our governor must convene a Climate Emergency session of the legislature now to enact emergency World War II-type laws:
• Divert Boeing to manufacture of solar and wind power equipment. • Vastly increase public transport. Poor ride free. • Outlaw Single Occupancy Vehicles, except where no public transport exists. • Impose aggressive, corporate carbon taxes. • Assess steep, progressive individual carbon taxes. Poor exempted. • Establish industry, regional and governmental carbon caps. • Outlaw carbon trading. • Begin personal carbon rationing. • Channel carbon tax funds to poor, offsetting high food, housing and transportation costs. • Carbon taxes fund global Rainforest Protection. • Demand full withdrawal from Iraq. Divert funds to climate programs. • Outlaw coal fired power plants. • Outlaw crop based biofuels production and use. • Provide energy retro-fit for all buildings. • Adopt new Land Use Law. Require density. Stop sprawl. • Protect Washington trees as ‘common good,’ critically aiding our climate.
