Friday, August 22, 2003
Another Derrick Z. Jackson screamer in today's Boston Globe.
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Editorial / Opinion / Op-ed / Bush's non-leap forward
Perhaps the moment will come when something that Bush loves at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, is no longer there. He brags about being able to jog in inhospitable 100-degree heat, but just maybe, when something he is used to disappears, a cactus, a flower, a cricket song, he will realize how we have abused the hospitality of the planet. He just might get that awe. That is our best hope for him to take the environment seriously. He needs the awe to forget about the oil.
Impression: Apparently, George Bush doesn't sufficiently appreciate the environment because he, unlike the Clintons, hasn't spent enough time out of doors. You see, Bill and Hillary actually spent a whole evening camped out in a tent - over night! - which gave them an abiding appreciation for nature and a desire to protect the environment. As opposed to GWB...who just lives on a ranch. Jackson then goes on to give us the usual unrealistic leftist lunacy espoused by city people for whom nature is a new revelation, not a part of life - the outdoors are for looking at and keeping under glass, not for putting to use. Good conservatives should be about protecting the environment, no doubt, but that means finding minimally damaging ways to put resources to use, not imagining you can set half the country off limits and leave it at that.
