The nice part of this process now is that instead of having to collate all these thoughts of mine, other much more prominent thinkers are doing it and for the big theory or green conservation I can leave to better men and women.
Newt Gingrich is a lightening rod for controversy, but none deny he is a visionary thinker of the conservative party. He listed these values in 2007 as a way to introduce or reinvent how conservative should view and discuss the advancement of being 'green'.
Values of Green Conservatism
1. Green conservatism favors clean air and clean water.
2. Green conservatism favors maximum biodiversity as a positive good.
3. Green conservatism favors minimizing carbon loading in the atmosphere as a positive public value.
4. Green conservatism is pro-science, pro-technology, and pro-innovation.
5. Green conservatism believes that green prosperity and green development are integral to the successful future of the human race.
6. Green conservatism believes that economic growth and environmental health are compatible in both the developed and developing world.
7. Green conservatism believes that we can realize more positive environmental outcomes faster by shifting tax code incentives and shifting market behavior than is possible from litigation and regulation.
Much of this is a top down mentality. This is a policy shift meant for the right wing party as a whole which is really where Newt is best suited. Conservatives, Republicans are the party of Theodore Roosevelt. The party that created the EPA and the clean water act and the clean air act. It seems that in the last thirty years the right has done everything possible to separate itself from environmental concerns and the left has done nothing but use scare tactics and fear to co-op new recruits. But somewhere in between the businessman and the Sierra Club is the rest of us wanting to do the best we can for the future.
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