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• Mike Huckabee is known for his pro-environmental views and
believes that people should be good stewards to the environment
regardless of the cause
• Outdoor Life magazine selected Huckabee as one of the 25 most
influential people for conservation. He was also named as Man of
the Year by the American Sportfishing Association in 1997.
• "I have always been a conservationist. Stewardship of the air
and land and soil is very important to me. I will follow the
principle I learned from the Boy Scouts: Always leave the land
better than when you found it. I am proud of my record in
Arkansas, building constructive consensus on key issues. I look
forward to bringing the same leadership to America."
• His stated his views on global warming, "The most important
thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are
responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to
the scientists, but it is all of our responsibility to leave this
planet in better shape for the future generations than we found
it."
• Huckabee believes that human beings are just the caretakers
of the magnificent creation of planet earth. "I believe that even
our responsibility to God means that we have to be good stewards
of this Earth, be good caretakers of the natural resources that
don't belong to us, we just get to use them. We have no right to
abuse them."
• The former governor of Arkansas supported conserving the
Buffalo River in the northern part of the state when he took a
stand against the construction of dams at the site. "While I
understand that building dams on streams can sometimes be useful
in flood control, the creation of water reservoirs necessary for
sustaining life, or for the production of electricity, we must be
careful to balance our use of those resources to ensure that we
do not lose all our natural treasures by altering them."
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• Obama said, "So we have a choice to make. We can remain one
of the world's leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make
the investments that would allow us to become the world's leading
exporter of renewable energy. We can let climate change continue
to go unchecked, or we can help stop it. We can let the jobs of
tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right
here in America and lay the foundation for lasting
prosperity."
• Obama is working towards reducing the carbon pollution which
he sees as a threat to our climate and will perpetuate the
dependence on fossil fuels. Obama lists out his policies to close
the carbon loophole and imposing stringent measures on carbon
polluters.
• Obama believes that carbon pollution can be put at check
through a market based cap. This is not only an environmentally
friendly measure, but will address certain energy challenges too.
The income that is generated in the process of closing the
carbon loophole will be returned to the people, especially those
families, communities and business which are vulnerable.
• Obama also exhorted to save the future generations from a
catastrophe of global proportions by spelling out an energy plan
wherein the carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced.
• "We've been talking about climate change in Washington for
years and energy independence and efficiency for years," Obama
said. "But no matter how many scientists testified about
greenhouse gases, no matter how much evidence that they're
threatening our coasts and endangering our weather patterns,
nothing happened with global warming until now."
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