Well, it warms my heart that some are asking, but it saddens my soul that while most folks want to do the right thing, it's increasingly difficult for them to figure out who's really doing what to whom on environmental issues. In what is always characterized as a conservative town, conservation is rarely part of the mix.
Corporate socialism is all the rage, at the expense of taxpayers and the environment.
It's increasingly difficult to get a real message through the paid and free media tide in favor of the business-subsidy culture at City Council and in Congress. When it comes to community input and the environment, the battles are mostly lost. To be sure, environmental politics is, slowly but surely, getting to be a bit less of an oxymoron. We have at least reached the level of serious lip service. But the problem is that a little lip service is a dangerous thing because it goes a long way in the sound bite age of modern politics.