Have you noticed, Dear Reader, how quiet it is over this Oil Spill crisis? No FEMA (apparently, this is not a national emergency), no charities buying air time soliciting funds, no churches organizing trips to help, no pictures of concerned volunteers scrubbing oil-covered sea birds with Dawn Detergent. Surprisingly, no news conferences or press releases or protests by environmentalists.
Isn't it part of every environmental organization's mission statement to value life and want to protect it? Have you seen anything from the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, America's Wetlands Foundation, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club?
(Cue the crickets sound-effect.)
The Sierra Club's website is now promoting "Beyond Oil" (http://www.beyondoil.org/) and urging us to send President Obama an email using their suggested text:
"The BP Oil disaster in the Gulf is a wake up call. I urge you (President Obama) to develop a plan to move our nation beyond oil in the next 20 years. The time for bold, visionary leadership for a clean energy future is now." BeyondOil.org
Oh, wait -- could it be that the environmental groups have muzzled their outrage in order to play ball with the Administration for its new "comprehensive" clean energy bill? Could it be that the noisy protests they led in other environmental issues are simply "of the moment" and not really tied to principals? Is it that the well-meaning contributors to organizations like these are simply tools and volunteers are simply photo-ops in a larger political game?
Isn't it part of every environmental organization's mission statement to value life and want to protect it? Have you seen anything from the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, America's Wetlands Foundation, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club?
(Cue the crickets sound-effect.)
The Sierra Club's website is now promoting "Beyond Oil" (http://www.beyondoil.org/) and urging us to send President Obama an email using their suggested text:
"The BP Oil disaster in the Gulf is a wake up call. I urge you (President Obama) to develop a plan to move our nation beyond oil in the next 20 years. The time for bold, visionary leadership for a clean energy future is now." BeyondOil.org
Oh, wait -- could it be that the environmental groups have muzzled their outrage in order to play ball with the Administration for its new "comprehensive" clean energy bill? Could it be that the noisy protests they led in other environmental issues are simply "of the moment" and not really tied to principals? Is it that the well-meaning contributors to organizations like these are simply tools and volunteers are simply photo-ops in a larger political game?
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