Will Scott Walker, the GOP and the Tea Party faithfully uphold Wisconsin's environmental legacy?

Will Scott Walker, the GOP and the Tea Party faithfully uphold Wisconsin's environmental legacy?

Or, are they planning to do anything and everything they can to deregulate our precious natural resources with deep-cutting anti-environment initiatives?

Are we ready for it?

We know they're actively preparing their attack, but are we prepared to match their enthusiasm to destroy the environment with our will to protect it?

Since when are economic development and environmental protection mutually exclusive, anyway?  

Imagine tomorrow morning, you wake up, check the news, turn on the radio, or whatever - and you see or hear this:

"Scott Walker holds press conference announcing new environmental deregulation initiative"

Your stomach turns, your blood pressure rises, you start thinking of ways you can fight back, but you haven't heard the best part yet....

"Walker expects swift passage of the bill, and a vote is scheduled in just 2 days"

Now what?

It's too late now.  If we haven't been proactive in preparing our opposition, we may as well have just rolled over and let the steamroller pass without opposition.  Passage will be swift, and the damage will be irreparable.    

What would John Muir, Gaylord Nelson, Sigurd Olson, or Aldo Leopold think?

More importantly, what would they DO?  Would they be in the back seat like we are?  Or would they be proactive?

Will you stand up to protect Wisconsin's environmental legacy?

  

and so it begins... "G.O.P. Push in States to Deregulate Environment"

This is what we can look forward to in the coming months.  The Tea Party and the GOP have grand, short-sighted and incredibly ill-informed plans to deregulate what little environmental resources we have left.  If you don't think this will happen in Wisconsin, think again - beware, and be proactive.  Environmental destruction is on it's way to Wisconsin, and it won't be pretty.  The least we can do is start preparing for it now, and begin building conduit between all of the various agencies, organizations and individuals that have the power and potential to fight back.  If we don't speak with a strong, organized, and unified voice, we won't be heard at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/science/earth/16enviro.html?_r=1