[CUGreens] Re: Evil voting -- Reasons not to vote for Al Gore (fwd)

[Klocke Brian V <klockeb@sobek.colorado.edu>]

FYI - dirt on Gore's enviro record

Brian Klocke

"Let us make the risk of peace and not impose the risk of war upon the
world"

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:28:19 -0500
From: Andrew Hund <axh69@po.cwru.edu>
To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK <psn@csf.colorado.edu>
Cc: psn-cafe@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Evil voting  -- Reasons not to vote for Al Gore

Reasons not to vote for Al Gore as compiled by Sierra Club board
member 
Michael Dorsey as a discussion paper

1. Gore has failed to save forests worldwide. At the WTO he
began, in concert with the President, and continues to push for a
global free trade agreement on timber with no conservation
measures, all designed to increase pressure on the earth's
besieged forests.

2. Gore has offered no effort to protect ecosystems from
dangerous invasions by exotic alien species. At the start of 1999
the administration killed the Biosafety Convention being
negotiated in Cartegena because it wanted to protect the
interests of biotechnology firms. Now over one fourth of the US
corn crop is planted in genetically engineered varieties, which
this year, in a surprising discovery, were found to kill monarch
butterflies.

3. Although Gore launched an initiative against sprawl in 1999,
he is simultaneously promoting sprawl in the Florida. His actions
will ultimately harm Everglades National Park by locating a
commercial aviation and industrial center adjacent to the Park.

4. Gore broke his commitment to clean water in Appalachia.
Further, the failure of the administration to enforce the strip
mine law has resulted in the removal of entire tops of mountains,
the filling of valleys with rubble, and the obliteration of over
1,000 miles of streams.

5. Gore promised in 1992 to keep offshore oil and gas drilling
away from the Florida coastline. Yet he never followed through on
this promise despite opposition to such drilling by both Florida
Democrats and Republicans.

6. Gore demanded that chemical manufacturers begin new tests on
nearly 2,800 chemicals. If they don't volunteer to do the tests,
he'll force them to do so in what is now called the High
Production Volume Challenge The tests include the gruesome lethal
dose-50% test, in which animals are forced to ingest or inhale a
chemical in increasing doses until half are dead, as well as
longer-term tests. In all, Gore's plan will kill an estimated
800,000 birds, fish, rats, mice, and other animals.

7. Gore promised to stop the big hazardous waste incinerator in
East Liverpool, Ohio in 1992, but today the project has proceeded
and is polluting the community.

8. Gore quit on his commitment to protect marine mammals. The
Clinton-Gore administration has undermined protections for giant
sea turtles and dolphins.

9. In spite of the evidence, that the ozone hole is growing and
regardless of the emphasis given to the ozone layer in his book,
Gore has severely hampered ozone protection measures.

10. In 1996 Gore directly ordered the EPA to slow down its
implementation of tougher pesticide standards that were required
by the Food Quality Protection Act. Indeed, since then he has
done nothing to help properly implement the act to get the 
worstpesticides out of our foods, according to Consumers' Union.

11. Gore quit on his commitment to control pollution. This decade
has witnessed a failure of the EPA to halt the massive pollution
caused by gigantic hog and chicken factory farms. As a result,
portions of rural America have experienced pollution episodes and
stench of Biblical proportions and a new worrisome disease
pfisteria has appeared. The recent floods in Eastern North
Carolina ruptured lagoons storing billions of gallons of hog
waste, creating what is now described as a dead zone along most
of the coastline.

12. Gore failed to keep radioactive materials out of commercial
products. The Vice President supported the plan to melt metals
from the Oak Ridge nuclear facility and put them into ordinary
commerce despite the lack of agreement over national radiation
standards for such metal products.

13. Gore remained silent as the environmental protection budget
was slashed.

14. Gore broke his commitment to protect wetlands, allowing the
Army Corps of Engineers to expand the scope of general permits so
that serious wetland destruction does not get individually
reviewed.

(Not to mention his pro-nuclear stance) 

VOTE NADER INSTEAD! 

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