Betraying a Presidential Tradition
In Florida, highly respected environmental groups have produced solid proof that the administration’s policies of protecting the state’s sugar industry have resulted in a higher level of pollution in the Everglades. In the Gulf of Mexico there has been a dramatic rise in mercury levels in the waters that are home to millions of birds.
News reports note that the Bush administration recently approved a decision by the state of Florida that removed 161 rivers and streams with high levels of mercury from a list of waterways that were mandated for cleanups.
The Bush rhetoric is clever. He and others who back him may deceive many voters. But the truth is that since the beginning of his first term in office, President Bush has consistently betrayed a presidential tradition going back to Theodore Roosevelt.
Everyone Is a Birder
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has more than one million members. But very few of them count themselves as birdwatchers. They are simply caught up in the deep human conviction that birds are a good thing; they should be enjoyed, celebrated, and encouraged. But we are all birdwatchers. We can all tell a robin from a swan and that is good enough as a start. Humans respond very powerfully to birds: Everyone at heart is a birdwatcher. Birds, you see, can fly. Birds are visible and audible. They, like humans, have their being in the world of sound and sight and they celebrate this in color and in song. A liking for birds is an ineluctable aspect of being human.
— Simon Barnes, author of "How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher"
London Sunday Times, 12-19-04
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