Earth Day

This morning I was involved with a group of students at a local elementary school planting trees to celebrate Earth Day. It's too bad our President is not doing his job to protect our environment. This is an excerpt from a letter written by Former Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day and Chairman Emeritus of Earth Day Network.

"EARTH DAY ANNIVERSARY 2005 - A WAKE UP CALL

…the President and the Congress have not stepped up to the challenge of providing national and world leadership on the environmental crisis.
In fact, on some key issues, they are actually resisting or reversing progress made in the past 30 to 40 years. And without strong, sustained leadership from the President and Congress the urgent challenge to protect the environment and create a sustainable society cannot succeed...

…Egged on by the President, the Senate on March 16 sneaked into the annual budget resolution a scheme to allow drilling for oil in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, protected in 1960 at the urging of great environmentalists such as Sigurd Olson, Justice William O. Douglas, and Wilderness Act author Howard Zahniser. The bill was signed by President Eisenhower."

Please click on the link above and read the complete letter.

r.m.