i have been waiting for the character limit to lift before writing this piece, accumulating articles, notes, links, quotes, for weeks now. an email notice received today from Bush GreenWatch has, however, pushed me over the edge, so i’ll follow Old Hickory’s example and write a ten-part entry if that’s what it takes. (you’re my journal hero, Bruce! you say what you need to say, character limit be damned. you write on!)
i begin with some quotes from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s article "Crimes Against Nature." the article has been published several places on the Internet, but was first published in Rolling Stone Magazine. it’s a very long article, 21 printed-out pages, but i believe it’s the most important (because comprehensive and published in a widely-circulated above-ground magazine) treatise of its kind available. Kennedy is legal counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he is doing important work to try to safeguard environmental law. he’s in a difficult position, watching much of the work he does go up in flames. the article opens with these words:
George W. Bush will go down in history as America’s worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America’s environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country’s air, water, public lands and wildlife. Cloaked in meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public, the administration intends to eliminate the nation’s most important environmental laws by the end of the year.(the piece was written in November ’03.)
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