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  Why fear self examination?

  If we environmentalists are so sure we're right, then what's so scary about a few soul searching questions? Where are we, as a movement, when the head of Greenpeace, an organization that regularly chases down whalers with megaphones, calls a civilized report "in your face" and "over the top" ? And the author of "Die Another Day" clearly doesn't understand the history of abolitionism, suffrage, civil rights or even temperence as opposed to modern environmentalism.  Those earlier movements unabashedly drew the strength of their arguements from moral values.  Modern environmentalists and progressives, while certain that they have moral values that are radically different from those of the right, consistently flee from expressing them.  That's a big part of why I and many others voted against Al Gore (for Nader) in 2000. Because he, or his wonks, fled screaming from taking a moral stand on progressive issues.On Civil-rights, suffrage activists didn't give up, and neither should environmentalists  posted 4 years, 7 months ago 4 Responses