"Jonathan Cook" wrote


For you waverers like me or even for you hard-core Republicans
that also feel the sting of its anti-conservations stances,
there seems to be hope at http://repamerica.org and
http://conservamerica.org



"Party" isn't ( or shouldn't be ) as important as "policy"

I'm hardcore middle of the road, and happy to support any group making
sensible efforts at improving environmental policy. I hunt, fish, and live
in a wood frame home .... I consume "nature" not just hug it. I deeply
believe that the environment and Man can both thrive, IF man will limit his
greed and limit his political leader's shortsighted, self serving, cronyism.

I also deeply believe that the child born today is at greater lifetime risk
from bad environmental policy than from the things Bush wants us to fear, to
deflect attention from his miserable record.

Defeating terrorism includes refusing to be terrified into self destructive
voting by it ..... we must have the courage to vote the environment and
other important issues.

I was "window shopping" for things to ask for ( birthday soon) and found
these opinions, they express the need to
vote for the environment better than I can ... give them a read

http://www.patagonia.com/enviro/reports/times_up.shtml

http://www.patagonia.com/enviro/repo...h_stakes.shtml

P.S. Chouinard has come a long way since he was blacksmithing pitons in
Yosemite's Camp Four to pay for his climbing. An admirable man and an
admirable company, imho