Silencing The Environment Bush Style

Once again, the Bush administration is up to its dirty, little tricks, what with its double-speak, confuse-the-public tactics, and flat-out lies.

In today's New York Times, an article by Andrew Revkin details how one of the country's most respected scientists, Dr. James Hansen (whose picture is posted above), is being silenced by Bush loyalists at NASA because of his speaking out at different enagements, particularly the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, where he discussed that the current federal leadership is doing little or nothing to slow the effects that emissions are having on our environment.

Aside from the fact that this is one of the only administrations that I can remember that is able to politicize the environment, what else was brow-raising was the fact that whenever a Bush loyalist is "found out", as it were, they quickly deny EVERYTHING. I have studied public relations, and I was taught that that is a no-no, particularly, when dealing with highly polarizing issues. One would think that with the spinology that this administration practices everyday, that they would know better by now.

At any rate, this is where we stand in United States: we have an administration that wants us to throw up our hands at sound scientific practice and theory and embrace the religious mumbo-jumbo of intelligent design; And now, we have an administration who, once again, is rejecting sound environmental science and expecting us to accept its politicized non-sense, and the silencing or alienation of those, who disagree. *Sigh*

How can we, as those using reason instead of pure emotion to guide and lead our lives, fight this behemoth? What can we do to push back against this might of wrong-headed policies, muddled science and lie-telling? Of course, we must fight back, but how?