Monday, March 07, 2005
Forest! Trees! Fire!
Look at that picture. Is that the kind of guy you want protecting the environment?
Kennedy pointed to numerous grim statistics: One-fourth of black children have asthma, coal power plants discharge chemicals that kill 10,000 Americans per year, and 1,200 miles of Appalachian mountains are being torn down by coal mining.
Let's face it. The Appalachians weren't doing anything important anyway.
He said the blame for Bush's policies should fall not on the environmental movement, but instead on the media.
Oh, it's someone else's fault, eh? That's creative. You know, if you want to make change, it doesn't help to tell the people you're talking to "It's not your fault." Because if it's not their fault, what are they going to do about it?
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