Green Candidate Guide From Envirowonk
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02. 4.08
New political website EnviroWonk (riding out of the Eco-Geek stable) has posted their "2008 EnviroWonk Super (giga), Post-Bowl, Fat Tuesday Primary Scorecard." Don't know why they did it as an image instead of text, that means I have to actually write something, which is annoying.
Everyone's position has "evolved" except for Huckabee who doesn't believe in evolution; Barack Obama has changed is views on coal; but as David Roberts of Grist noted in an earlier post, "It is difficult to think of a another policy issue on which the ground has shifted so far, so fast, and difficult to think of another policy issue on which the gulf between the two political parties is so vast and striking." ::Envirowonk , see also ::Plenty's comparison here.
No Mike Gravel? No Ron Paul?
For the reasons why I don't think Hillary Clinton deserves a passing grade on the environment, see my Daily Kos diary which received nearly 1,000 comments:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/1/234527/0014/392/448115
The league of conservation voters rates Obama's record higher than Clinton's.
The link to Envirowonk actually goes to a Treehugger article about Grist...
There is no mention of the serious green candidates, Those in the Green Party - Kent Mesplay, Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kat Swift, and Ralph Nader.
When did our country start relying on the president to clean up the environment. Democrat or Republican, we can not rely on them. We have to rely on ourselves to clean the country.
Who is the greenest candidate? Who cares. Lets get out and take care of it ourselves!