Why I’m Voting for Barack Obama … and I hope you will too: Reason 4
Reason 4: The Environment
(This article is adapted from a piece originally published in Creation Care Magazine.)
I care about the environment. To me, it's not just stuff. It is God’s sacred creation. I love it. I cherish it. And because of that passion for creation, I am enthusiastically voting for Senator Barack Obama.
A while back I read a book about mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Then I saw a Sierra Club video that put the problem in color and in motion. I saw the devastation unleashed by insufficiently-regulated corporations, denuding and flattening once-majestic mountains, poisoning springs and creeks, sickening people, laying off workers, and making a few executives rich. Then a few months later I went fly fishing in Yellowstone, awed by the powerful presence of bison and elk, the fresh scent of grassy meadows in summer green, the shine of snowy peaks in the distance. Those two landscapes linger in my memory – one sold short for a fast profit, one conserved for posterity.
The good news is that either candidate in this November’s presidential election is likely to make the environment a higher priority than the Bush-Cheney administration has. The bad news is that this isn’t saying much.
The better news is that Barack Obama names global climate change “one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation.” The word “moral” takes on new significance when you stand in Yellowstone … or near what was once Lost Mountain in Appalachia.
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