Last night's "joint appearance" by the two major party Presidential candidates was billed as being on foreign policy and homeland security. Having watched much of it and having just read the transcript, I'm only a little surprised, but much annoyed that nothing about the environment came up. On the day that Russia signed on to the global climate change treaty, you'd think the implications of the environment in foreign policy might occur to Jim Lehrer. Canada is "foreign" but I wasn't expecting a question on the Great Lakes...still, climate change and global water scarcity are genuine foreign policy concerns. Someday maybe our government will treat environmental issues as more than a boutique offshoot of the real foreign policy issues of bombs and bullets.
Posted by Dave at October 1, 2004 05:51 PM