ASGP Press Release, Mar. 16
The Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) issued a press release on Friday, March 16, lambasting Bush's reversal of White House policy on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and describing it as "reckless in its disregard of the evidence of worldwide climate change, a blow against international efforts to impede global warming, a sell-out to oil and coal industry lobbies, and a facile betrayal of a campaign pledge."
Carol Miller, a New Mexico Green Party activist and public health expert, said, "Watching the President so quickly break a significant campaign promise is of great concern to the ASGP. Not only does it demonstrate a willingness to protect corporate profits instead of the environment and public health, it is destructive to democracy itself." She added, "At a time when citizens are cynical about government and turning away from voting, this action validates the commonly held belief that politicians will say anything to get elected." The ASGP press release described Bush's new policy as "a second major setback, after the Clinton-Gore sabotage of the international climate change meeting in the Hague, in November 2000" and called for "drastic reductions in the consumption of fossil fuels (of which the U.S. remains the largest consumer), conversion to alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, sustainable development and economic policies, and the preservation of forests and other natural areas which help process atmospheric carbon dioxide."
The Association of State Green Parties is a national federation formed in 1996 and comprised of 29 state Green parties. For more press releases and a weekly news circular with published news and opinion about Green political issues, see the ASGP website.
