Dear Editor: Naturally, as a green minded American who reads Newsweek cover-to-cover each week, I was thrilled to see the special section Free at Last, kicked off by Fareed’s story. Then soon little twitches started occurring and I felt muscles ache in my neck and shoulders as phrases such as “opening the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve” and extracting billions of barrels of oil from shale, and treating nuclear energy as if it is totally safe, clean and green (we’ll all watch this debate rage since Patrick Moore endorsed nuclear).
“Who, what…?,” and then I saw it, bi-line Newt Gingrich! Please…Yes, let him contribute if you must, but as an expert on green energy?!!! How disappointing to find him in this group in this section. What a sham and so unlike Newsweek! We have scientists and experts, geophysicists, biologists and environmentalists and visionaries.
Why not have brilliant contributions from the likes of Paul Hawken or Amory Lovins who make a living by helping corporate American solve our energy and environmental challenges? We have hundreds and even thousands of qualified story tellers to help the masses understand the predicament and recommend a proper and responsible course of action.
It is shameful to see this blemish, Drill Baby Drill, with a disgusting image of oil pumps like dinosaur robots, poisoning the mountain landscape, and having it shoved in our face in a special section about achieving genuine energy independence! For those of us who know the score, we’ll scoff and hurry to throw it away. But for the millions of people who still need the facts and trust Newsweek to deliver, why take so many steps backward when it is so painful and so long coming to find ourselves in a position to enjoy the momentum???
Please fire the editor of that section who blundered so horribly.
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