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Palin Is No Environmentalist

By TChris

Gov. Sarah Palin is no friend of the environment.

Palin, McCain's vice presidential running mate, has had frequent run-ins with environmentalists. ... "Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill," said John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, maintaining she is "in the Stone Age of wildlife management and is very opposed to utilizing accepted science."

Palin challenged the Bush administration's decision to classify the polar bear as an endangered species. Nor does she agree with the National Marine Fisheries Service that the beluga whale population is endangered. She opposed ballot initiatives to better protect salmon streams from mining operations and to outlaw the shooting of bears and wolves from aircraft. Let's not even talk about her lust for pipelines despite their impact on caribou populations. And, unlike John McCain, she refuses to acknowledge that human behavior might have had an impact on climate change. [more...]

Rep. Brad Miller says:

"She is disturbingly part of the pattern of the Bush administration in their approach to science generally and the science of the environment in particular."

Given her indifference to polar bear habitat, she may be even more anti-science than the Bush administration has been. Certainly she's worse than John McCain. Is this someone our nation wants to have as a potential president?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).