Babbitt, Hawken, and other enviros throw their weight behind Dean

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Babbitt, Hawken, and other enviros throw their weight behind Dean
by Bruce Babbitt, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, and Terry Tempest Williams

15 Jan 2004

http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/soapbox/babbitt011504.asp

And imagine what it would mean to have a president who offered real attention not to the high and mighty, but to normal people with normal problems. For environmentalists, it would mean that the natural tendency of people to support a healthy planet for the sake of their children might finally prevail. Poll after poll shows that our fellow citizens consider global warming a serious problem; that we want more wilderness and protected land; that we favor protecting small farmers, not corporate agribusiness giants; that we're sick and tired of acid rain and mercury pollution; that we can't stand the constantly growing epidemic of childhood asthma. We want windmills and solar panels; we want abundant, enduring fisheries and forests. And we want international cooperation to solve the truly global problems like climate change that threaten every town and every business.

And yet, in the Washington of the moment, those overwhelming wishes of the American people matter less than the demands of lobbyists, who continue to vandalize our public lands, spew toxins into our atmosphere, and run our family farmers out of business.

That has to change.

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