 Several
readers brought to my attention the 30-minute speech that RFK Jr gave
at the Environment Votes townhall at the Democratic convention (not to
be confused with his very short speech to the convention as a whole),
and this speech is now available, although hard to hear at times, at this site. For those that would rather read what he has to say, a longer and more expansive Kennedy condemnation of Bush's Crimes Against Nature is also available, from Rolling Stone.
The Rolling Stone article is very long and thorough, though the speech
updates it some of Bush's more recent additional environmental
atrocities.
I reported last year on RFK's interview with Salon, which also makes good reading.
Between these articles, and other sites like Howling at a Waning Moon, Environment 2004 and Kennedy's own NRDC website,
the litany of evidence of Bush's obvious hatred of nature, the
environment, and public property of any kind, and his total disdain for
the legacy that he's leaving our children and grandchildren, not to
mention all the other species that share this Earth, is overwhelming.
It is really hard to understand how anyone with an ounce of humanity
and caring for anyone other than themselves could even think seriously
about voting for this criminal. I remain astonished and dismayed that
Bush's popularity is even 5%, let alone 45%.
Wednesday the NYT also remarked
about Bush's incredible, even ruthless disregard for even basic respect
for environmental protection, commenting that even his campaign
advisors, and allies like John McCain and Tony Blair, have reprimanded
him for his intractible opposition to any efforts to stem global
warming. Even the Russian despot Vladimir Putin has finally realized
the dangers of global warming, and agreed yesterday to recommend that
Russia ratify the Kyoto accord. The Russian approval finally gives the
accord full legal stature, and once again, as with the International
Court of Justice, the Land Mines Treaty, and a host of other vital
global consensus agreements, Bush's intransigent and belligerent
opposition utterly isolates America from the rest of the developed
world, and further damages America's reputation.
Meanwhile the most recent polls
suggest the US election, now only a month away, is again too close to
call. There is so much at stake. Those of us who live in other
countries can only shake our heads and hope the Democrats are better
than the Republicans at getting their supporters registered and out to
the polls. It appears the fix is in again in Florida, so a lot rests on
the voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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