REP members like ROY GERDEL want to protect nature sites like MONTAUK SPRINGS or BATTLE OF ATHENS STATE PARK from the stench and pollution of CAFOS (Confined Animal Feeding Operations).
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TOP TEN REASONS FOR BEING A REPUBLICAN GREEN
1. Elephants can be Green: Consider Teddy Roosevelt.
2. Global warming is a non-partisan planetary issue.
3. Conservation is conservative. Ask a real conservative.
4. Environmental entrepreneurship is good for business.
5. Environmental products are good for global commerce.
6. Energy independence is a patriotic mission to accomplish.
7. Stop Anti-Environmental Wackos like Rush Limbaugh.
8. You don’t have to be a “liberal pagan” to enjoy trees..
9. It’s time the GOP disowns Bush anti-environment policies.
10. Al Gore shouldn’t have all the fun – or the credit.
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Nothing could be worse for the environment than blind partisanship — whether it’s tin-eared Republicans claiming that conservation is a socialist conspiracy, or haughty Democrats claiming a monopoly on environmental virtue.
Treating the environment as a partisan issue allows politics to trump steady progress in favor of political boom-and-bust cycles — booms when the “good” party is in power, bust when the political cycle inevitably turns and the “bad” party takes center stage.
Lasting environmental progress will be possible only when both parties make an effort to work together for the good of the country, rather than for partisan advantage.
For that to happen, Republicans must rediscover the stewardship ethic that is at the heart of traditional conservatism and be willing to show environmental leadership. Democrats must set aside stereotyping and give a fair hearing to conservative ideas for taking care of the environment.
There are no Republican rivers, nor are there Democratic forests.