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1. From: "david and miyuki" <dmmaboehm@auracom.com>
Re: Green Party
2. From: Brian Bradley
Re: election issue: pressure-treated wood
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Paul's note: So, far, the only federal election messages I have received
re the environment are from the Green Party. Does any other
Party/candidate have an environmental policy? I sure hope so!
Tell sust-mar ...
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From: "david and miyuki" <dmmaboehm@auracom.com>
Subject: Green Epiphany (in plain text {I hope})
I was cursing Ralph Nader and the Green Party this morning for throwing the
US election (probably) to the Republicans. Al Gore is the first
presendential candidate who has been a conscious and avowed environmentalist
and I thought it was ironic that he should be tripped up by Greens...
Alas, I found myself perusing the Green Party of Canada's website this
afternoon and was suddenly struck with a revelation: I believe in these
things! No other party is saying these things! This is not a party trying
to revive a bygone nationalism, or content to serve a cozy constituency, it
has real vision with international connections and appeal. The only
unifying ideology that will bring the world together to sort out the
problems that face us is the ideology of environmentalism: "There is only
one value: the life and health of the world." [Wendell Berry]. The Green
Party stands alone in having a vital philosophical core from which it
develops policy. The NDP once upon a time had a home in socialist thought,
but has lately been adrift.
The Green Party did not steal the election from the American Democrats. If
Al Gore had wanted to, he could have challenged Ralph Nader to run as the
Green Party's presidential candidate. The American writer, Bill McKibbon
quoted Al Gore in one of his books as saying something like: there is such a
huge gulf between what needs to be done (to address environmental crises)
and what is political possible that its hard not to despair... [I'm quoting
from memory]. But on the other hand if leaders are content to keep defining
the possible in the old boundaries then the electorate will also feel
comfortable remaining there while we slide toward ruin. The painful break
has to come sometime and it came 2000 in Florida with a vote spread of 2000
or so votes. The Democratic party will not win an election again until it
goes Green.
I don't have a Green Party candidate in my riding so I'll probably vote for
the NDP. If there was a Green candidate, I would no longer hesitate to
'waste' my vote on the future of politics.
David Boehm
Truro, NS
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From: "Brian C. Bradley" <ax876@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: Political Daaaaa
Of all of the candidates currently running in the Sackville - Musquodoboit
Valley - Eastern Shore riding, NONE have shown any honest response to the
question concerning what they would do to stop the production,
importation, sale and use of lethal "pressure-treated" wood. This is a
clear lack of honest response to problems which threaten our environment
and our health. Given that the previous MP did nothing to effectively
have this issue brought before the house, what choice do we have in this
next election? NONE?
Brian Bradley
home page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ax876
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