I'm just really disappointed at how quickly our environmental principles get flushed in favor of political ideology.
My first experience with politics was in 1989, when I was twelve years old. The "Alternative List" (Green party) of Berlin won so many votes that they were able to elect, together with the Social Democrats, a new "Senate" (the executive in German city state is called "Senate") of Social Democrats and Greens who then quickly introduced a new pricing scheme for the public transport system.
It was fantastic. Within a year the formerly dismissed public transport system became the most loved institution in the city and the streets did indeed free up and the scheme completely and utterly worked. It was green politics well done and it was politics well done.
A year later, when Berlin was annexed into Germany, new elections replaced that administration. This mainly happened because East-Berliners, now part of the electorate, voted mainly between conservative (the majority) and socialist (not Social Democratic, the minority).
I remained a fan of the Greens for quite a while but was constantly annoyed by how little attention they paid to actual environmentalism (their sole obsession was with making nuclear power plants illegal and whether that is really environmentalism is quite debateable) and how much attention they paid to everything else.
They wanted to be pacifists, socialists, progressive, democratic, all sorts of things that had nothing to do with environmentalism.
If Discovery thinks more people will watch the show because Palin is hosting, then I think that's a great way to help educate people to some of the natural wonders that are out there.
Yes, I agree. Do people usually care about the political views of television show presenters?
I feel this same way about fair weather feminists and again it was Sarah Palin that brought the issue up. A feminist is supposed to celebrate a woman's success and achievement apparently unless that woman is Sarah Palin.
Indeed.
