"By "gutting" the Clinton rule, as one member of Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund put it, but maintaining a skeleton, the Administration can claim it is holding firm on protections even as it offers concessions to industry."
posted on May 6, 2001 05:13:15 PM new
Thanks. What a total jerk we have in the Casa Blanca! I do think some of his stances are going to cost him his re-election, though. In the meantime, the part of the earth that we are responsible for continues to deteriorate.
posted on May 7, 2001 07:35:55 AM new
I think that this JERK is going to hurt the Economy, Unions, Wildlife and the United States all together....Think about it...He is already bringing up opening up the border of Mexico....Why? Because the president of Mexico is a wealthy rancher like he is? Bush is out for the rich, the rich get richer and us middle class people are going to suffer....There are already so many illegal Mexicans where I live that is hurting the Unions...I live in the middle of the US...Union work is dropping...Why? Because they will work for a lesser dollar amount...And they don't pay taxes for 5 years when they work in the US....That means the business owners that employ them are'nt paying their taxes either...I think it is a bunch of crap!!!! If something is'nt done, we will be living in huts, just like they are in Mexico!!!!!
posted on May 7, 2001 07:48:08 AM new
You know I never forward anything unless it is
important - and there's a way at the end to Email your
congressman with the touch of a mouse!
> Subject: A message from Robert Redford
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> I've never circulated this kind of email before. But
> I am
> so appalled by President Bush's plan to open up the
> Arctic
> National Wildlife Refuge to massive oil development
> that I
> feel I must do whatever I can to help stop it.
>
> To me, the Arctic Refuge represents everything
> spectacular
> and everything endangered about America's natural
> heritage:
> a million years of ecological serenity . . . vast
> expanses
> of untouched wilderness . . . an irreplaceable
> sanctuary for
> polar bears, white wolves and 130,000 caribou that
> return
> here each year to give birth and rear their young.
> For
> 20,000 years -- literally hundreds of generations --
> the
> native Gwich'in people have inhabited this sacred
> place,
> following the caribou herd and leaving the
> awe-inspiring
> landscape just as they found it. Our own presidents
> going
> back to Eisenhower have kept a bipartisan promise to
> safeguard this world-class natural treasure. But not
> THIS
> president. It is a sad day indeed when our president
> and
> congressional leaders would sacrifice America's
> largest
> wildlife refuge for the sake of a possible six-month
> supply
> of national energy. A six-month supply! We could
> save that
> little oil by improving the fuel efficiency of cars
> and
> light trucks by a mere one mile per gallon.
>
> Only one group of Americans will benefit from the
> destruction of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge: the oil
> giants.
> Everyone else loses. Arctic wildlife populations
> will
> decline, the Gwich'in people will see their land
> marred by
> pipelines and poisoned by oil spills, you and I will
> become
> even more dependent on oil, and the planet will
> suffer
> catastrophic global warming from the burning of even
> more
> fossil fuel.
>
> Unless we get millions of Americans to lodge a
> protest right
> now, this nightmarish scenario may well come to pass
> in the
> next two months. The Republican energy bill, which
> would
> fulfill the president's promise to drill the Arctic
> Refuge,
> is moving through Congress today. House and Senate
> leaders
> may also try to sneak through the Arctic drilling
> provision
> by attaching it to a "must-pass" appropriations
> bill. These
> votes will be decided by the moderates in both
> parties. We
> must reach those moderates and hold them
> accountable.
>
> Here's what you can do: go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic
>
> The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has set
> up this
> new website to make it extremely easy for you to
> send
> messages of protest to your senators and
> representative. It
> will take you only a minute.
>
> I've been on NRDC's board for 25 years, so I know
> how
> effective they are at waging and winning
> environmental
> campaigns. Last year, NRDC used web activism to help
> generate a million messages of protest to Mitsubishi
> and
> stopped the company from destroying the last
> unspoiled
> birthing ground of the Pacific gray whale.
>
> We'll win this time too if each of us does our part
> for the
> Arctic Refuge. Please visit
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic right now. And
> forward my
> message to your family, friends and colleagues.
> Congress
> cannot ignore millions of us.
>
> If we let them plunder our greatest wildlife refuge
> for the
> sake of oil company profits, then no piece of our
> natural
> heritage is safe from destruction. Please go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic and help keep the
> Arctic
> wild and free.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Robert Redford
>
> BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
> A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
> http://www.savebiogems.org
posted on May 7, 2001 10:49:41 AM new
So do I, Gas is too friggin' expensive. Tell the members of the Gwich'in tribe to relocate. They are like those starving in Ethiopia and Somalia - Move. You're living in a desert, what do you expect? To the members of the Gwich'in tribe, in all likelihood, their standard of living will go up thanks to the money coming into their area, and if they don't like it, move south. That's what the geese do.
posted on May 7, 2001 12:37:34 PM newjlpiece: They *do* move: they follow their herds & live a nomadic lifestyle. And why assume that they find their "standard of living" all that low or "bad"? Seems to me that all they desire is to keep their current lifestyle & don't want it endangered.
posted on May 7, 2001 01:07:43 PM newMrsSantaClaus:"Perhaps we should all be more worried what comes out of Bush's mouth ...."
Hear! Hear!
Perhaps what we'll ALL do is to tell Republican Voters: SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU FOR KNOWINGLY VOTING THESE JACKLES INTO OFFICE WITH THIS WELL-KNOWN AGENDA! SHAME ON YOU FOR VOTING SO STUPIDLY!
Maybe -- just maybe, Republican Voters will learn that there is a price to pay for being lead through the nose! A price beyond what we're ALL going to have to pay if this creep remains in power! Do what you can to recall all elected Republicans NOW! Get busy with petition drives! Get going, because contrary to Robert Redford -- THEY AREN'T LISTENING! If they were, we wouldn't be in this mess!
posted on May 7, 2001 01:30:29 PM new
Borillar- It wont do much good. I remember back during the raygun nightmare people bragged how great he was......until the replace ketchup with fruit in schools, union busting, high unemployment, and on and on. Wasnt it just a few weeks back they wanted to quit testing meat in schools? And just wait till gas goes to $4.00 a gallon. People will have to learn a lesson again. clinton liked women, but at least everyone was working.
posted on May 8, 2001 09:44:22 AM new
~Keep This Alive~ We American's must stand up for America.... Let your Freedom of Speech stand up for what is happening in this world today... Maybe if all of us stick together - things will get better... I don't believe this is how GOD intended things to be... With his power & our faith maybe, just maybe we the people can make a difference...
