Red, White and Blue Goes Green

According to Penn Future, one of my fave groups, one of my New Year's wishes came true. I want the environment to become an issue people vote on. As I said in World magazine, I want that, but I don't think we are at a point where that issue drives people to the polls.

Well, I stand mildly corrected - we are moving in that direction faster than I realized. I knew from talking to regular people (not just enviro-tree-huggers) that several issues - the cost of gas, the fact that we fund terrorists and regimes that don't like us by buying oil, endangering our national security, and that for people of faith it is destroying God's creation - were helping environmentalism to pick up speed.

Clean air and water to drink is an important issue to be sure, but it's critical to protect ourselves against national disaster either from global warming or from international policy decisions influenced by our dependency on oil! Being an environmentalist is not just about protecting cute animals anymore (though God probably made them cute for a reason, so we would want to:)). It is about a moral obligation to our children and future generations to be stewards to our great planet; it is about an obligation to our soldiers that we will do all we can to make ourselves as energy independent as possible, and it is about making sure that our children, our grandchildren and their children all know that we thought of this - the water they would drink, the air they would breathe, and the world they would live in - and said let's do all we can to make it the best it can be.

Scientists have been telling us for years what was coming, and despite the conservative canard that the jury is still out, the facts are in! Folks are paying attention as they feel the pain in their wallets, as they watch us send our money to regimes who want us dead, and as they see cities being ravished by natural disasters that weather experts say are intensified by global warming.

Let's keep up the fight guys! And visit www.citizenhunter.com to see more initiatives, including some we helped to win. Ideas, raising awareness, and discussion are are all important, but taking action is critical, and this action junkie thinks it is a lot more fun to do it then talk about it. So check out www.citizenhunter.com get to the action center and follow one corporate slogan I don't mind--JUST DO IT!