The Vice President of the United States pays a lot of attention to the environment.
The Washington Post is running a series about U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney this week. Its revelations and thorough, exhaustive reporting are likely troubling to a lot of people, regardless of their political views.
Today's installment -- the fourth -- is of special interest. Dick Cheney has worked just as hard on environmental issues as he has on U.S. economic policy, judicial matters and international relations, and with similar outcomes. Among the results of his environmental work: 77,000 dead fish in Oregon's Klamath Basin -- the largest fish kill ever in the western United States. And there's more: snowmobiling in national parks, oil drilling in Alaskan wildlife refuges, aiding and abetting polluters, and changing George W. Bush from a candidate who promised carbon dioxide reductions to the global warming President he is today.
Dave Dowling
it sounds like dick cheney is an eco-terrorist hell bent on harming every molecule of nature that he can!
A few more people like dick in those positions of power and we will all be buying water, and air, as there will not be any natural clean stuff left to breath and drink!
that is if we are able to live on this planet by then. . .
robert feinstein
Dear Sir, I am glad that Justin can make light of the problems of the environment but I am afraid Ijust cant do this especially about the problem of global warming which frightens me. Several things bother me about the so-called debate on global warming: 1-There is really no debate at least here in Canada. I take it,from the above comment,that there really is no debate in the U.S. either. In Canada,the backers of the Harper Plan have been allowed,without arguments from our side,to claim that their plan is as good as the Kyoto Plan to stop catastrophic global warming even though few if any climatologists agree with them. Such pro-Harper Plan people then have been free reign in our mass media 2-The backers of the Harper Plan again without debate have been allowed to claim that the only realistic plan on global warming must allow for economic growth whereas for climatologists the only realistic plan must save our world from catastrophic global warming(how economics enters the equation at all is a question only our business leaders have the intelligence to answer). I just see no reason why economics must come into the picture though now even backers of Kyoto feel it necessary to talk about economic benefits. And what happens if the backers ofthe Harper Plan are right in their ecomomic critique of Kyoto? 3-Major conservation groups have not joined together(why they do not really work even individually) to massively fight for Kyoto. One has to wonder how,if even such groups show such blindness,how we can save our world 4-Now that the mass movement has moved to other issues(Palestine,Afghanistan...) one wonders whether the public can again be aroused. Yours truly, Robert Feinstein
Lora Bruncke
I agree with what both you men say. I will add that I believe capitalism is a failure. It is polluting the planet beyond its ability to sustain oxygen breathers. Harper's and Bush's reasons for not complying to Kyoto are slight of mind. Both countries are funding a lot of the progress in China. A good part of our goods, including, but not limited to, toys, toiletries, household products, furniture, clothes, shoes, designer stuff, and food stuffs, are now from China. In my opinion, Harper's growing economy is based on immigration. We are not having enough children to warrant much new development. The more people who move here from other countries, the more roads, bridges, and homes we have to build. We create jobs and money for land owners, but also more pollution. Our big businesses are funding the quest for more cheap power in China. We cannot continue to take more than our share -I can't imagine anyone's god condoning such behavior. For those who do not agree we are in trouble, just look at the broken records. Here in the Okanagan we recently broke a high low. This is bad news for our area, as we saw in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. I do believe we have the power to correct our destructive course. We just have to follow the proper path! Both you men are on it, along with Dr. Suzuki! Happy Canada Day!
Gary Hogarth
The planet will survive, with
the caveat some species will not !
The human race is the species in the most trouble, ignorance
and outmoded market-place concepts will most likely lead
us to destroy ourselves. It's close to midnight on the "Doomsday Clock"...real close !