Clark Wins Endorsements From Leading Environmentalists

[KittyWampus]

WILMINGTON, Jan. 21 (OneWorld US) -- Three top environmental thinkers and advocates denounced the Bush
administration's environmental record and expressed support for the candidacy of Retired General Wesley K.
Clark in Delaware Wednesday morning

"When George W. Bush took office, he became Commander in Chief of the anti-environmentalist forces in
America and around the world," said Russell Peterson, former Governor of Delaware and one-time president of
the National Audubon Society, at a press conference in Wilmington Wednesday morning. "We are very, very
lucky to have someone like Wes Clark to run on the Democratic ticket and lead our country. We need a higher
standard of leadership in the White House," Peterson continued.


Peterson was joined by Earth Policy Institute founder and president Lester Brown and former EPA Deputy
Administrator W. Michael McCabe in criticizing the environmental record of the Bush administration and
endorsing Clark for the presidency. "George Bush is dismantling the bipartisan environmental consensus that
goes back to the Nixon administration," said Brown, emphasizing that environmental policy and sound
economics go hand-in-hand. "We have the technology to restructure the U.S. economy to make it cleaner and
more efficient. Wes Clark understands this. George Bush does not."


Brown criticized the current administration for its reluctance to take advantage of existing technologies that
would supply power to vehicles and residences while emitting fewer greenhouse gases, which are believed to
be the principal cause of global warming and other destructive climate change around the world. The
renowned environmentalist, who has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most
influential thinkers," also chastized the current administration for basing environmental policy on its political
agenda rather than on sound science.

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Clark, who didn't participate in the Iowa caucuses, was the second-most common choice of registered
Democratic voters in the most recent national poll conducted by the Gallup polling organization.

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[Jerseycoa]

1. Oh, this is wonderful

I am so happy when environmentalists come on with us.

:bounce:

[David Zephyr]

2. Good for General Clark!

:toast:

[Jerseycoa]

4. Thank you

:)

[jmaier]

3. Along with the strong

support from within the Native American community, this endorsement is best. It speaks to well to Wes Clark's core values.

[KittyWampus]

5. Exactly! The Broad Range Of Support For Clark Is Amazing

and an asset we should start featuring.

Brown is very well know and respect around the world, btw.

[Loren645]

6. He went into even more detail on his Env policy yesterday

during the town hall meeting. Said he supported the Kyoto
Accord, but even it doesn't go far enough.

He's quite serious about env issues. As these endorsements underscore.