What Key Environmental Questions Should the Presidential Candidates Answer Before the 2012 Election?
06/04/2012
For the current issue of Audubon, reporter Kat Bagley interviewed Shawn Lawrence Otto, cofounder of ScienceDebate, a non-profit that’s urging the presidential candidates to hold a live debate focused on science, technology, and the environment. The group’s 2011 poll found that a whopping 84 percent of Americans supported a face-off.
That got us wondering about what you, Audubon readers, think. What are the most important issues related to the environment/conservation that you would like to see the presidential candidates asked about as the election nears? Climate change? Energy development? Endangered species?
Speak up: If you could pose a question about the environment to both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, what would it be?
Post your question to our Facebook page by midnight Friday, and remember to 'like' your favorites. We’ll publish the top five questions on our blog and on Facebook next week.
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Face-Off
In 2008, John McCain and Barack Obama answered 10 questions posed by Audubon.
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Although environmental, energy, & natural resource policies have seldom figured prominently in a presidential election, such policies have a direct effect on issues that do feature prominently in presidential elections. For example, energy policyowner alone affects public health, foreign policyowner, & the domestic economy. As a companion to our Environmental Forum article which surveyed twelve major figures on what topics ought to be discussed in the presidential debates, we've invited specialists with broad policyowner experience to speak about their answers to key questions.
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"Dreamers chart their own
"Dreamers chart their own course and destiny. Dreamers are always striving to be the person they were meant to be and are not afraid to be different."
The issue of Climate change
The issue of Climate change should be brought up first!
Does CLIMATE CHANGE ring a
Does CLIMATE CHANGE ring a bell with you? What are you doing about this critical problem?
Do you believe that healthy,
Do you believe that healthy, diverse, and sustainable ecosystems are more important than private corporations profits?
In a year when freakish
In a year when freakish weather has devastated crops and food production globally, it’s hardly a surprise to see that prices both in supermarkets and restaurants are on the rise.
Environmental instability is
Environmental instability is damaging crops and driving up food prices. We can't wait until there is widespread famine, we have needed war time speed into renewable energy for many years now. It's a win/win for the environment and jobs. Why can't we take the fossil fuel industries subsidies and put them into renewable energy which will give us the jobs we need to set us on a sustainable path for our future?