Last week, contributor Tucker Eskew wrote about Governor Mark Sanford’s op-ed in the Washington Post, a forward-thinking piece about the need for conservatives to engage in the environmental debate, or eventually “find ourselves on the menu.”
The conservative response continues this week with Jonathan Adler’s article in the National Review Online, in which he cautions readers that “Articulating a truly conservative environmental agenda is much easier said than done.”
Conservative blogs have started to focus on this story too, with Fire of Liberty and Backseat Driving both weighing in with some interesting comments:
He may be arguing that conservatives should take the lead in creating a culture of personal responsibility to address our environmental impacts, recalling the anti-materialist, “respectable Republican cloth coat” beliefs that Nixon talked about in his Dr. Jekyll moments. That would be a great challenge to come from the conservatives. Let’s see what the Republican presidential candidates have to say about it when they come to South Carolina.
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March 2nd, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Thanks for the link, but I should note that other than my libertarian/free market leanings, it would hard to characterize my blog as conservative.
-Backseat Driving