Why would clean environment issues be considered liberal or Democratic?

Question

Those labels are so taboo nowadays. These issues really have nothing to do with political parties...or do they? The issues are very real. What's the problem???!!!

Answer 1

I really dont know why. The environment is the basis for our existence and our economic prosperity and as such should be protected in the best interest of our growth and development.

Answer 2

I wouldn't consider a clean environment a Liberal or Democratic issue. I feel it's an issue looked and approached in different ways by the Democrats and the Republicans. And people whine and cry that the government isn't doing enough about it to fix the issue, but have blinders on and don't see the forest through the trees.

The government pointed out the issue and now the corporations are taking it upon themselves clean up their acts. And you can point out all the sierra club scare stuff you want, but that's all it is. It's scare tactics that aren't true.

Just open your eyes and you'll see that people are working hard to clean up the environment and to make better habitats for our four legged friends.

And if your whining about a clean environment globally, then I ask when did it become the US's job to police the whole world on every issue we think up here in the US?

Oh and what do you consider a clean environment?

Answer 3

Environmental issues are somewhat peculiar. Democratic solutions to perceived problems tend to be associated with government bans, which would normally be thought of as a far-right solution, and Republicans tend to produce mildly liberal programs. Go figure.

Answer 4

The environmentalists seem to have found a home in the socalist democrat party. They just would not fit in with the special interests of the republicians but seem to fit in better with the special interests on the left. There they blend in better. Their answer to the environmental problem is to roll back industry at the expense of jobs and growth.

Historically, the left does a far worse job on management of the environment than the moderates or the right. I use the former USSR and the former east Berlin as examples. The environment was in very poor shape in these countries. Another example might be N. Korea. A small electric infrastructure but look at the economy. Do we want to roll back to the mid-1800's?

The solution to the environment does not lie in the extreme right or left. It's somewhere in the middle.We can keep the environment clean and protect industry as well if we are willing to do what it takes. Stockholders would like to see profits go up but they need to use a certain amount of that to keep the environment clean.

Answer 5

A clean environment is neither Democratic or Republican. California's Arnold Schwarzenegger entered an anti-global warming agreement with Blair and is pushing numerous environmental programs.

The question is who should pay for it, how to get there, and how reasonable is it to order people to obtain a specific result when technology does not yet exist that would obtain that result.

Answer 6

Because Republicans and Conservatives have used it as a boogeyman to scare the American people. Bush Sr. said that Clinton and Gore were so pro-environment that they would have us neck deep in owls and every American would be out of a job . Well, Bill Clinton went on to preside over the most prosperous American economy since WWII. They scare American people into thinking that things that are good for the environment are bad for business. It's a lie, but it works. No Democratic Congressman or President has crippled the American economy by making legislation that promotes less pollution. (I typed this before I read the previous answers and I noticed someone already made a comparison between saving a family or saving owls. Funny isn't it? Not one politician in the world would favor saving owls over saving a family.)

The funny thing is many people like to bring up Teddy Roosevelt as a Republican that made the National Park Service flourish. The thing is he was a Republican that understood the importance of conservation. There are not a very large number of Republicans like that left in the world and certainly not in our government. That doesn't mean there aren't ANY. They are out there, but they are being drowned out by the people that say global warming is a hoax, or people that slowly peel back legislation that previous administrations have made that have bettered our air quality and reduced our pollution.

If I were you I'd do your part. Become a carbon neutral household. Because if you wait for politicians to agree to clean up the environment, you'll be waiting a very long time.

Answer 7

Because the Republicans seem to think that costs to clean the environment would hurt their rich supporters' businesses. They can't seem to understand that you can make money cleaning the environment and replacing old power systems with new. Not to mention the jobs created here and the national security provided by drastically cutting our dependence on foreign oil.

Answer 8

The liberals want to blame global warming on capitalism. They think factories and suv driving republicans are the cause. But the truth is global warming is just a natural occurrence that happens in cycles.

The NY Times says global warming is due to cow farts/crap
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/opinion/27wed4.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Answer 9

It's not about parties, It's about addiction to power and profits.

Answer 10

It's not hard for me to answer this question at all.

Republicans don't like wasting money on cleaning up the environment, nor do they desire to make the big corporations be responsible for their pollution habits.

Democrats/Liberals on the other hand have sound morals and believe the environment must be cared for and cleaned up, there have been many cases where whole towns have had to be torn down and buried because of chemical pollution.

The Democrats don't have a problem spending billions on cleanup of the environment.

Basically it boils down to money, the rich republicans don't want to take responsibility for anything they do that is detrimental to the environment, while the middle class and the poor are more likely to take responsibility for the environment and work to clean it up for all of us.

Answer 11

Those issues are considered liberal or democratic when the only solutions that are posed for them are anti-business and anit-economy solutions.

Nuclear power is 100% emission free, and can be 100% recycled (spent fuel rods).

However liberal environmentalists block the building of nuclear power plants and nuclear waste recycling facilities, because they are good for big business.