Greens singing the blues
The tone of the debate over the environment shows the Dems green lobby is more interested in attacks than progress.
"...For too long the environmental debate has centered on counting the number of new laws we've passed and new regulations we've written, on tallying up how much in fines, fees and penalties we've levied on polluters. Focusing on those aspects -- measuring process instead of progress -- may be easier, but it has made it difficult to adapt environmental policymaking to changing times and challenges.
"When the environmental debate turns on questions of process, attempts at innovation have a hard time getting out of the starting gate. An attempt to modernize a law is cast as an effort to undermine it. A good-faith effort to try new methods of achieving better results is characterized as a retreat from existing commitments."
The tone of the debate over the environment shows the Dems green lobby is more interested in attacks than progress.
"...For too long the environmental debate has centered on counting the number of new laws we've passed and new regulations we've written, on tallying up how much in fines, fees and penalties we've levied on polluters. Focusing on those aspects -- measuring process instead of progress -- may be easier, but it has made it difficult to adapt environmental policymaking to changing times and challenges.
"When the environmental debate turns on questions of process, attempts at innovation have a hard time getting out of the starting gate. An attempt to modernize a law is cast as an effort to undermine it. A good-faith effort to try new methods of achieving better results is characterized as a retreat from existing commitments."
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