"You were right"... I wish media and politicans had the courage to acknowledge it

[Peacetrain]

For all the true environmentalists.. and I mean the people who have been fighting the good fight for decades.. you were right.

How many times have you warned people, protested, testified, and tried to educate a populace who in turn vilified you for your efforts.

Just look at the gulf. What an incredible mess it is. You were right. I know that is no solace, because you worked so hard to avoid just this type of scenario.

From acid rain, to sulfur runoff in water in mining communities and chemical contamination of deep well sources in farming communities.

Maybe, just maybe the time has come, people will heed your words. Maybe something good will come out of this tragedy in the end, and we will begin to take into consideration the finite nature of our world.

You will never ever be acknowledged for all the work your did.. but everyone knows.. they know.. at least take comfort in that.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Too many media outlets have financial ties to the very sources of the pollution.

[AnArmyVeteran]

3. Isn't it strange, conservatives worship businesses, while businesses destroy environments & people.

And yet conservatives still attack environmentalists. When Bush was governor of Texas he sold out Texans by giving 830 exemptions to the worst polluters in the state. They in turn paid for Bush's campaigns for governor and president. Under Bush, Texas became #1 in the country in air, water and soil pollution, but not a word of it was said by the media or even Gore during the campaign. The 2000 election shouldn't have been close enough to even allow it to be stolen if Bush was exposed back then. All my liberal friends wondered why no one in the media or the democratic leadership were attacking Bush for his destruction of the environment of Texas and the way he destroyed the Texas education system.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Excellent questions...and I know they are ones that Molly Ivins asked over and over and over.

[Peacetrain]

5. That is an amazing statistic.. I didn't know..

[AnArmyVeteran]

7. Don't you think Gore should have pointed it out during the 2000 debates?

I remember watching the debates in 2000 with liberal friends and we were all dumbfounded because all Gore did was agree with Bush most of the time. Some of us were yelling at the television for Gore to bring up Bush's horrendous records, but nothing. If Gore had actually debated Bush the election wouldn't have been close and we would have been spared either years under that idiot, 2 wars, economic destruction, and all the other carnage done to our country. Everyone I watched that debate with said they could have debated Bush better than Gore did. We even wondered if the fix was in because it all seemed so surreal.

BTW, I liked Gore and still like him but he's a horrible debater.

[Peacetrain]

8. Yep, I think you are right.. it points out where the Bush priorities lay

Gore was not a great debater, I agree

[mike_c]

2. I've been saying for years that Americans will sell their grandchildren...

...for oil and all the trappings of the consumer dream. Nothing has changed, really. Maybe a few more folks have woken up and become aware of our collective impact, but not enough and not with sufficient power to offset the greed that drives consumerism and environmental exploitation.

Frankly, we need an ethos that discourages exploiting resources rather than one that rewards greed. I don't see that happening any time soon.

[AnArmyVeteran]

6. Not as long as we have capitalism controlling our country, government & people.

Greed is not a virtue, but conservatives believe it is. Their god is capitalism and their disciples are corporate CEOs.

I understand that there are people on both sides who are addicted to materialism and the only way to change our culture is to break that addiction.