Bill and Others:
The polling results (especially the 60% figure of those who
thinks GW Bush wnats to protect the environment too) are on
one hand simply maddening and on the other a great
opportunity to do some serious education about what the do
Bush Administration HAS found time to do vis-a-vis the
environment, namely dismantle decades of environmental
progress, obstruct progress on sustainable energy and block
action on global warming to name a few. I'd be interested
in hearing what action steps the Club has to deal with this
info.
Jim Fleming

--- Bill Witt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At the latest National Sierra Club political training
> event held a couple
> of weeks ago in DC, Celinda Lake presented her firm's
> latest polling data
> relating to the environment and politics.
>
> The baseline numbers on support for environmental
> protection continue to
> track about as strongly as ever.  80-plus percent want to
> protect the
> environment, crack down on polluters, etc.  Over 70
> percent, Republicans
> included, say they take personal action to benefit the
> environment--recycling, buying green, supporting local
> initiatives, and so
> on.  Over 70 percent want Congress to spend whatever is
> necessary to get
> the job done, and between 50 and 60 percent are willing
> to pay more in
> personal income taxes to assure adequate enforcement,
> cleanup...
>
> Now for the kicker:  over 60 percent believe that George
> Dubya wants to
> protect the environment, too!  It's just that he's so
> busy with Iraq and
> homeland security and cutting taxes that he simply hasn't
> had time to turn
> his attention to environmental protection.
>
> Their reasons go something like this: " 1.  I like the
> environment.  2.  I
> like President Bush, because he's a nice man. 3.
> Therefore, President
> Bush must like the environment too.  4.  Because he and I
> think alike, I'm
> sure he'd do the right thing--if he just had time."
>
> Cynicism starves democracy.  Optimism feeds it.
> Skepticism keeps it trim.
>
> The cynics have wrapped their wolves in lambswool, and
> Americans continue
> to graze happily in front of their teevee sets, turning
> democracy into a
> morbidly obese, wheezing, whining couch potato.
>
> Meanwhile, rumors abound 'round the Beltway that Ralph
> Nader wants to run
> again, and he's courting Erin Brockovich (herself, not
> the actress) as his
> running mate.  If there are any fed-up, non-doe-eyed
> Greens reading this,
> I hope you'll tell your old heart-throb to park his ego,
> shut up, and sit
> down.
>
> BW
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> > Sorry about that, I forgot that not everyone has Macs.
> I will reattach
> > in MS Word.
> > Daryl Smith
> >
> > Daryl Smith wrote:
> >
> >> While Al Gore may not have been as strong on
> environment as some wished,
> >> I'm certain his administration would not have done
> this.
> >> Some info I encountered while looking for material for
> class discussion.
> >> Daryl Smith
> >>
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