Majority of Americans hate nature
The environment is on my mind, since I just saw a Roper study which reported that 33% of Americans don't care about the environment and 19% are consciously antagonistic to it. (These are the folks who say things like, "I fill my Hummer's tank with 30 gallons of shut your mouth.") Add that up. A majority of Americans either hate the earth or don't care about it at all. Were these people attacked by falling leaves when they were babies?
Anyway, I want to write about the environment and Friday seems to be playing along with me.
Item #1: Today, Dubya nominated Coloradan David Bernhardt to be the top lawyer at the Dept. of the Interior. Bernhardt has been one of the lackies the administration uses to push oil drilling all across the West. In 2001, he helped prepare congressional testimony on Arctic drilling for Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Barnhardt dismissed warnings from the government's own scientists and instead based his work on reports funded by BP. So our government and big oil now share a lawyer.
Item #2: The U.S. House passed a bill opening Colorado's public lands to oil shale development. Our public lands - the lands we pay taxes to support - will be sold to mining companies. The bill includes provisions to limit environmental reviews and to drop consultations with Colorado officials entirely. Every single Colorado Republican voted for the bill. Every single Colorado Democrat voted against it. So now Dubya doesn't even have to ask Owens before he sells Colorado to his big oil buddies. To his credit, Sen. Ken Salazar has vowed to strip the shale provisions from the bill when it reaches the U.S. Senate.
Anyway, I want to write about the environment and Friday seems to be playing along with me.
Item #1: Today, Dubya nominated Coloradan David Bernhardt to be the top lawyer at the Dept. of the Interior. Bernhardt has been one of the lackies the administration uses to push oil drilling all across the West. In 2001, he helped prepare congressional testimony on Arctic drilling for Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Barnhardt dismissed warnings from the government's own scientists and instead based his work on reports funded by BP. So our government and big oil now share a lawyer.
Item #2: The U.S. House passed a bill opening Colorado's public lands to oil shale development. Our public lands - the lands we pay taxes to support - will be sold to mining companies. The bill includes provisions to limit environmental reviews and to drop consultations with Colorado officials entirely. Every single Colorado Republican voted for the bill. Every single Colorado Democrat voted against it. So now Dubya doesn't even have to ask Owens before he sells Colorado to his big oil buddies. To his credit, Sen. Ken Salazar has vowed to strip the shale provisions from the bill when it reaches the U.S. Senate.
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