Anti-environmentalists are willing to say just about anything to stop the protection of America’s natural resources. One anti-environmental activist, aligned with a pro-industry agenda in the Republican Party, even tried out the following line: “What’s happening out there is nothing less than the eviction of the only endangered species really in Montana, and that’s the working Montana family. We’re going to have 30 percent unemployment, and long with that comes wife-batterment and child molestation, and all the rest of it. Now, do you think environmentalists give a damn about the fact that kids are going to be molested?”
Environmental protection does not lead to child molestation or wife beating. Only a fool would make that claim. Let’s elect a progressive President in 2008, so that we’ll have a White House that doesn’t make political allegiances with that kind of fool.
(Source: Richard Wallace, Ethical Spectacle, January, 1996)
