rivierman,

Any single issue voter is an idiot regardless of the issue.


Bush packed his administration with former industry lobbyists
( Do you benefit from any of these indsutries directly or indriectly by lower consumer costs better products or easy access to goods? We are a consumer driven society and unless you are living off the grid you beneift form this. Yet you oppose it emotionaly but fund it directly or indirectly with your lifestyle)

. The Bush administration has proposed drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and is considering weakening laws against new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida and California – putting wildlife populations at risk in all three regions. More>>

( So you take the bus to fish or work. You do not use products dirved from oil. You are part of the demand and every bit as guilty as the next guy)

Now his administration proposes opening more than 58 million more acres of protected forests to road-building and logging project.

( again ,you do not consume forest products? there is no paper, wood in your life at all your home is situated in the middle of an old growth forest with no impact whatsoever. I know I know the next guy is worse because you have to have those things and he does not)


President Bush has reneged on his campaign promise of four years ago to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

( i'll give you this one as a promise is a promise)


Through both direct regulatory action and actions through the court system, the Bush administration has worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),

( Again this is done to lessen the constraints on industry to provide jobs, develop the economy make building [power plants for an expanding population. So you would propose stopping this and limiting job growth paying more taxes to support the people effected. Limiting your need fro electricity, Paying 10 to 20x for goods and services that you need today?)

The Bush administration proposed a plan to eliminate Clean Water Act protections

(see any of the above unless you are saying he just gets a kick out of it)


Courts have found the Bush administration in violation of the Endangered Species Act more than 60 times in just three years in office. Furthermore

(see any of the above unless you are saying he and Cheney are out hunting endangered species)


President Bush has proposed allowing electric and coal companies to emit nearly seven times more mercury than is allowed under our current law
(The net that allows you to read this post is using electricity generated by these power plants. We can kill all of this and send smoke signals of flash signs across the US)


Do you see the theme here. You have voted for all of this with your spending and lifestyle. You are an equal part of the problem. Everthing Bush has done can be traced directly back to you , me and everyone here.
You need to look at every single thing in your life and the upstream and downstream effect on the environment before you point the finger. You need to buy your 10 acres and set it aside for all time to offset your impact on the environment and then be willing to buy 10 acres for everyone in the world that is un able and unwilling to do the same. You may not be dumping sediment in the streams directly but you dollar is doing it . Either here or in S America so you can have a Rosewood handle on your Graphite(mined) flyrod(coated with petro chemicals) while you wade that stream in your gortex gear( more petro chemicals) casting that line(More petrochemicals) to deliver the fly before you set the hook(mined) on that wild fish. You sanp a picture( more petrochemicals and mined goods) and then get in you Tundra( 1000's of parts made of petro chemicals and mined goods) and drive home( oh my god imagine all the trees and wet lands cleared and filled so you can do that) back home( forest products ,mined goods petro chemicals) Environmentalism is a fallacy you are manipulating the environment right now for you own needs and calling the other guy worse for helping you.

Can we do better yes but is the Avg. joe of this world willing to pay the price? No! Don't forget the majority of the world wants what we allready have. the worst is yet to come and your vote will have nothing to do with it.