Planet Patriot Party Platform
I think America could and should become great once again. It ought to be loved - not reviled as we are now - by other nations and people all over the world. For that to happen, America must adopt goals that will recognize that the survival of America (and all nations) depends upon creating a sustainable global world community. The best hope for peace on our planet is for America to make friends all over the world.
America needs candidates to become Planet Patriots. Or rather, America needs Planet Patriots to become candidates. Who will rise to the challenge? The following are urgent priorities as of 2006 - 2008.
Goals for Planet Patriot Candidates:
- Obtain 100% energy
independence from fossil fuels - foreign or domestic
- using sustainable renewable energy. This is our best hope for peace
in the Middle East, not to mention survival of America as we reach peak
oil.
- Launch a major world-wide good-will program implementing a global
tree-planting and reforestation effort with funding equal to that of
our expenditure for munitions and weaponry.
Everyone in the world would love America if we did this, and it would significantly
offset our global warming emissions.
- Establish
a U.S. Department of Peace, launching
a priority effort as the moral equivalent of war, to promote domestic and
world peace. Commit funds to a major research and development effort for
peaceful methods of conflict resolution to be implemented domestically
and globally. Violence just begets violence. We must find a way to
achieve world peace because we live on a single planet.
- Stop
Global Warming and rapidly reduce CO2 emissions in
the United States and the rest of the world. Sign
the Stop Global Warming petition. Global warming is real.
Who cares what Exxon thinks? Global warming is caused by humans,
according to the world's leading scientists? Who cares what
Rush Limbaugh and his ilk think? Solving global warming will bring
huge economic benefits as we diversify our energy supply and transportation
options. There are both
Democrats and Republicans that understand this. Why
try to prop up an obsolete non-sustainable fossil fuel industry when
we have so many better renewable and sustainable
alternatives?
- Restore the place of our National Parks as America's
Crown Jewels. To
dto this, we must do the following:
- Restore, reinvest in, reinvigorate, and protect our National Parks - including a major effort to fix our parks, halt their chronic under-funding, address the huge backlog of facilities maintenance needs, restore Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite National Park, and add the Alaska National Widlife Refuge to the national park system and designating the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge as Wilderness. We must not sacrifice our crown jewels for more freeway traffic!
- Add
new units to the National Park System, including a Maine
Woods National Park, turning the Giant
Sequoia National Monument over to the National Park Service,
create a Sonoran
Desert National Park, create a Delaware
National Coastal Heritage Park, and many others.
- Provide universal health care for all. We owe it to the children.
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