There Is No Tomorrow by Bill Moyers

[HamiltonHabs32]

(i first posted this in general discussion... I was told to post it here)

I am assuming this has already been posted, but I can't find it anywhere so here y'all go (mods can merge if need be)

Either way I went through the article and found relavent links to some of the points that he makes throughout the article.

Check it out

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. Here's a bit of it

"I read that the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has declared the election a mandate for President Bush on the environment. This for an administration:

• That wants to rewrite the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act protecting rare plant and animal species and their habitats, as well as the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires the government to judge beforehand whether actions might damage natural resources.

• That wants to relax pollution limits for ozone; eliminate vehicle tailpipe inspections, and ease pollution standards for cars, sport-utility vehicles and diesel-powered big trucks and heavy equipment.

• That wants a new international audit law to allow corporations to keep certain information about environmental problems secret from the public.

• That wants to drop all its new-source review suits against polluting, coal-fired power plants and weaken consent decrees reached earlier with coal companies.

• That wants to open the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to drilling and increase drilling in Padre Island National Seashore, the longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island in the world and the last great coastal wild land in America.

I read the news just this week and learned how the Environmental Protection Agency had planned to spend $9 million -- $2 million of it from the administration's friends at the American Chemistry Council -- to pay poor families to continue to use pesticides in their homes. These pesticides have been linked to neurological damage in children, but instead of ordering an end to their use, the government and the industry were going to offer the families $970 each, as well as a camcorder and children's clothing, to serve as guinea pigs for the study.

I read all this in the news."

It's an excellent article and Bill Moyers is the real deal. The thing that's great is that first and foremost, Bill is an East Texas Baptist boy. He is a Christian and I have no doubt it pains him to see the horrible things that the current administration and its supporters are doing "in the name of Christ".

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Bill Moyers Is An American Hero! n/t

[housewolf]

3. This article is so powerful that it leaves me speechless

I have no words, only tears and a prayer to find a way to make a difference, to find a way out of despair and hopeless outrage into empowered action.

[ochazuke]

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Thanks for the post. It really makes my day (sarcasm). Love Bill Moyers. Hate those fundies. They are PURE EVIL.

[struggle4progress]

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