The headlines from
Wisconsin have been a little weird in the past few years, going back to when
governor Scott Walker went and punished the unions who did not support his
election.
Now
the three-member Board of Commissioners of Public Lands has voted 2-1to ban its employees from working on global warming issues during company time.
The single vote against the ban, interestingly enough, came from Tia Nelson,
the daughter of Gaylord Nelson, the U.S. Senator from Wisconsin who was the
driving force behind the first Earth Day in 1970. The two votes in favor of the
ban came from GOP members.
I
understand that those who work with public lands do a lot of things, the main
purpose being the stewardship of a state’s lands. Now it seems to me that
stewardship of lands of any state of the union would have to take into
consideration climate change. How are these folks in Wisconsin going to be able
to do their jobs?
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