More than 200,000 people participated in the climate march in Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, nearly 60 local marchers participated in the People’s Climate March on April 29, and in at least 2,300 marches worldwide, more than 785,000 people in at least 175 countries spoke out for climate action and justice. This was just a week after Earth Day’s massive outpouring of support for science and for the protection of Earth’s life support systems.
At the same time, many work behind the scenes toward the same goals. Most of those involved would probably be comfortable calling themselves environmentalists. I’m not going very far out onto the limb to guess that most of these are, among other things, pro-human, pro-freedom, believe we can have healthy economies and healthy environments (and indeed that you›re not likely to have one without the other over the long term) and pride themselves on understanding the science behind their issues and solutions.
This is all contrary to what Garry Gamble says (“The heart of the matter,” May 6). Gamble backs up his disparaging characterization of the “modern environmental movement” with an 18-yearold quote from a long-discredited figure who left that movement a generation ago.
Not everyone who links the Bible and “good stewardship” equates the latter with maximum monetary profit, as in “The heart of the matter,” and not everyone who is interested in our public lands and their management ignores all the priceless intangible values of these lands and our responsibilities to preserve them for future generations.
Ellen Hawkins
Tofte
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