The War on Nature

[bryant69]

I was going to make a joke about how the unwarrented attack on Florida by Hurricane Charley would inspire President Bush to declare a "War on Nature."

But then, rather sadly, it occured to me that Republicans have been at war with nature for quite some time now.

Bryant
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[IrateCitizen]

1. Sadly, the "war on nature" is a bipartisan affair...

While the Democrats at least are willing to talk about it, they haven't been too willing to do much of anything about it, overall.

Looking back some 30-40 years ago, at the beginning of the environmental movement, there were members of BOTH political parties who championed environmental reform and conservation. If one compares Richard Nixon's signing and support of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts with Bill Clinton's refusal to push for even modest increases in CAFE standards, it highlights how much the political scene in BOTH major parties has drifted away from championing the environment and instead simply looks to placate industry.

Certainly, the Republicans are downright HORRIBLE on the environment these days. But the Democrats only look good in comparison to the Republicans absolute refusal to acknowledge environmental issues -- they really aren't doing a whole helluva lot right now.

Meanwhile, to recite the words of Jim Morrison...
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her,
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
Tied her with fences and
Dragged her down....

Time is ticking, ecosystems are slipping away, and yet BOTH parties refuse to take real action.

[K-W]

5. It is a bad issue for politics, change doesnt come from the top.

Long term issues do not make good political issues. People want to see results and enviromental laws dont neccessarily produce tangible results. You have to keep people focused on long term consequences, which human beings arent terribly good at focusing on. There was a time when it was cool to care about the enviroment, in this time politicians could and did make major changes. Unfortunately the American people have a short attention span.

The only way to get the government to act on an issue like this is to get a groundswell of opinion. The onus is on each and every one of us, not on the democrats to educate others and battle the corporations for hearts of the people.

[WMliberal]

2. maybe he'll do something akin to his Healthy Forests initiative

"since warm water causes hurricanes, I propose we bring about a new Ice Age."

[H2O Man]

3. I think that bush & cheney

believe there is something fundamentally un-natural about nature.

[Mari333]

4. Nature always wins eventually

we all die, everyone of us, one way or another...nature will go on, the earth will continue to spin, the planets will continue to exist, the sun will continue to shine..humans ARE nature..they are but a blip, however, in the whole large Universe..and they wont be able to destroy nature, they will only end up destroying themselves....

[K-W]

6. I dont know that I would call that a win for nature. EOM

[Mari333]

9. Its not a win for the human race. we ARE nature, also

but we have divorced ourselves from the concept..our arrogance will be what destroys us as a species...

[D-Notice]

7. Reminds me of a line from the Simpsons:

"Hi! I'm actor Tory McClure.

You maybe remember me from such nature videos as 'Earwigs... Ew!' and 'Man vs. Nature - The Road to Victory'"

[K-W]

8. Or this gem from Mr. Burns

"Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favor! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys!"