The conservation group Oregon Wild reports that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has OK’d a sizable timber sale near Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park, despite the administration’s supposed “timeout” on new roads in national forests. I haven’t looked into the story thoroughly, but this video has the perspective of Oregon Wild, which says the sale “Includes more commercial logging and road-building in inventoried roadless areas than occurred across the entire country during the entire Bush administration.”
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Tyler Durden Posted 11:35 pm
24 Jul 2009
roadless areas than occurred across the entire country during the
entire Bush administration.'"This highlights a huge problem with supporting most Democrats: they can be just as beholden to industry as Republicans, but people don't notice all the harm they do because the public generally assumes they're pro-environment, which they are in only some cases. This is the reason I so strongly oppose any support for all but the most progressive Democrats, who would never support anything like this. But if you supported Obama, this is the kind of thing you supported.For the life of me, I cannot even begin to understand why otherwise intelligent progressives, like some who post here, are loyal to the Democratic Party. As a whole there's nothing progressive about it; it just represents the liberal wing of corporate America and has for decades. What progressives should be fighting for is proportional representation while putting their efforts behind truly progressive parties like the Green Party. Supporting corporate Democrats like Clinton and Obama will just get you more of the same, like the massive tree killings and ecosystem destruction portrayed in this post.
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