"If we’ve learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it’s common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic wellbeing will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources."
— Ronald Reagan
People forget that the conservation movement really got going under Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican.
ReplyDeleteI have a saying. Truisms are trite.
ReplyDeleteGrandpa use to say (so I was told) - Talk's cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey.
In other words, a brief review of Ron Reagan's environmental accomplishments might help. And given that record, it would be mighty short indeed.