Why wasn't the environment more of an issue?

[LisaM]

All along, especially during the debates, I was just shouting for them to discuss the environment. This is our issue, people. The debate moderators ignored it - and only one citizen asked a question during the Town Hall - Bush's answer showed how laughingly incompetent his ideas and plans are - and it was never hammered home.

[Avalux]

1. Because it doesn't matter

the rapture will happen soon so who cares about the environment. And haven't you heard? Apparently this election was a referendum on "moral values".

<sarcasm off>

[Quill Pen]

3. What happened was 9/11

The 9/11 attacks were a Repug wet dream; they illuminated for them a campaign trail on which they knew they'd never have to mention the natural world again. They've keenly grasped that their fellow Americans are too stupid to compute that their likelihood of getting blown up by terrorists is infinitesimal, compared with their likelihood of suffering cancer or other diseases from a contaminated environment.

You can't talk about the environment to an electorate that will barely spend ten seconds out of each day thinking about anything but themselves and their own. I would like to have heard a great deal more from Kerry on the environment, but the press would have savaged him for straying from marketable talking points.

Al Gore spoke extensively about the environment, and the freepshow labeled him "insane," "unbalanced" and "severely mentally ill."

[BillZBubb]

2. How does saving the planet protect us from gays getting married?

Priorities, Lisa, Priorities!

[theoceansnerves]

4. bush increased the wetlands by 3 million.

the environment was a non issue because bush had us beat because he did such a good job with the wetlands!

[idiosyncratic]

5. I'm with you . . . I wish the environment was more of an issue

I want rampant oil and gas exploration on our public lands to STOP!!

I want the Bureau of Land Management to have all the funding it needs to protect the Wilderness Study lands.

I want solar panels to be mandatory on every house in the Southwest and elsewhere where sunshine is abundant.

I want hybrid and hydrogen-powered cars to be the norm . . . SOON!

I want the snowmobiles out of Yellowstone (except for very limited numbers that have four-cycle engines.)

[Lorien]

6. Because the corporations that own the government

and the media don't want us to notice what they are doing to the environment in the name of profits. If they people knew, they would be scared shitless by what's really going down. 9/11 was a cakewalk compared to what global warming has in store for every one of us. They know this. They want to make as much money as possible to keep themselves "safe" from the coming catastrophy they've created.

That's my short answer, anyway.

[Sara Beverley]

7. You have to be able to "hate" and no one hates the environment.

They just ignore it or take it for granted. You will have to link the environment to the Bible and show that it is a mortal sin to not care for it. I can do this (I have studied the Bible extensively) but the media would have be on board to make it an issue as they did the gay marriage thing. And you would have to get the mega churches and the evangelical icons to want to do that.

[treehuggnlibrul]

8. I wanted this too. I think that it would have had an

impact that people underestimated....