I sent the following letter to the editor of Time Magazine
yesterday and would appreciate the name and/or dept and
e-mail address of someone in the national office of Sierra
Club who is likely to be familiar with the Bush energy and
climate-change plan and who could comment on my letter
hopefully write another one. Christy Todd Whitman's
editorial was in my opinion a shameless and deceptive
lowpoint in what was otherwise a relatively good issue of
the magazine. I hope readers of this listserve will also
write to Time.
Thank You ,
Jim Fleming


Dear Editor,
The August 26th issue featured some excellent examples of
solutions to severe environmental problems. George Bush's
"climate-change program" as trumpeted by EPA Director
Christine Todd Whitman was clearly not one of them however.
Her use of various statistics blatantly obscured the fact
that the President's plan provides huge subsidies for
non-renewable, greenhouse-gas emitting energy production
in comparison to funding for renewable, clean energy. She
also raised fears about the Kyoto protocol putting
"millions out of work" apparently ignoring the economic
(including job) opportunities that an emphasis on renewable
energy production would create. She mentioned that the Bush
plan would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 18% over the
next ten years "relative to our economy"; in other words as
the economy continues to grow, as it is expected to do, the
plan would still allow emissions to grow. The vast majority
of U.S. and international experts have been warning us for
years that even the CURRENT level of greenhouse gas
production is likely to have irreversible and possibly
devastating economic, environmental and human health
consequences. The spector of such a legacy, which could
begin to rear its ugly head within the next 1-2 decades, is
not one that either the President or his the Director of
the Environmental Protection Agency should be promoting. It
certainly is nothing to be proud of as Director Whitman
seems to be.

Sincerely,

James L. Fleming, M.D.
51 E. Broadway, Suite 203
Fairfield, IA 52556
641-469-5604





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