It’s galling and frustrating how environmental causes have become so politicized. What should be common ground is today anything but. We all live on the same planet, after all. Should we not all want to take care of that planet? Should we all not want to sustain it for our children and grandchildren? Yet money talks. Big Industry stands to lose money if it has to clean up its collective act, and it doesn’t want to, so it spends less money than it stands to lose to buy politicians and hand-picked “experts” who will say and vote the way Big Industry wants them to. And people who suck swill at the trough of a particular political ideology believe whatever they are told by their politicians and those selfsame “experts,” not realizing they are being duped by big business types who are more concerned about their pocketbooks than they are about the world we have to live in.
Me, I refuse to worship at the altar of either political party. For me, the only real difference between the two is the various special interest groups they’ve sold out to. That’s why I celebrate ANY time a politician, from either side of the divide, does what’s right for the natural world. President Obama has issued a ban on the hunting of bears and wolves on federal lands in Alaska—from HELICOPTERS. That state’s reprehensible former governor, whose name I won’t even mention, I find her so disgusting, thought that such hunting was “sporting.” I say drop the hunters off in the wilds with no weapons if they want to hunt wolves. In order to be “sporting,” both sides must have a reasonable chance of success. Maybe rub the hunters down with bacon grease to really make it interesting.
good, this is a small step
Let’s hope those hunters will get run down so we could save bears AND wolves! LOL.