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After the interview at the immigration rally yesterday in Flagstaff, Channel 3 News<\/em> out of Phoenix caught up with us again to do a piece on the campaign. The reporter asked why I was running for president. I said because I was a concerned parent who, among a long list of things, didn’t want my children inheriting a world of “global warming.” Later in the day, I picked up the Arizona Daily Sun <\/em>and there was a front page article about a Northern Arizona University (NAU) professor who now says plant life alone is not enough to counteract the carbon dioxide we’re pumping into the air, and the earth could actually be warming up faster than we thought. NAU is one of four universities nationwide that is recognized as “an institute for research on climate change.” Professor Bruce Hungate and colleagues found in a recent study that forests and jungles around the world can’t process the world’s carbon dioxide nearly as fast as civilization is emmitting it, according to the article. The professor said this is a “wake up call” that we can’t expect nature to fix the problem and we ought to get serious about emission reduction. Translated:<\/strong> In the face of all this alarming news, if you’re still driving to the local market or shunning taking the bus to work — you are demonstrating absolutely unconscionable environmental stewardship practices… We also did a whistle-stop event in downtown Flagstaff yesterday, meeting people on the streets, passing out literature, listening to ideas… NAU’s campus TV News station came out to do a story. Right in the middle of the interview, a guy pulled up on his mountain bike. I passed on a flyer to him and said we had a friend back in Ohio who had a similar bicycle, only with a bike sticker that reads: QUESTION INTERNAL COMBUSTION! <\/strong> I then said to the reporter that we had met with Dan Burden in High Springs, Florida, earlier in the campaign. (Time Magazine<\/em> called him one of the top environmentalists in the nation.) Burden travels the country trying to inspire his “Walkable Community” model, which includes widening bicycle lanes, slowing speed limits, locating senior living facilities above downtown mercantile sections, creating diagonal paths to the center of town to shorten walking distances… It only makes sense, common sense, that if we make a town much more walking and bicycling friendly, people will, well, walk and bicycle more… Last night I talked at the Holy Trinity Newman Center on NAU’s campus. I said I couldn’t help but notice, as the rest of the nation has, the phenomenal numbers of people taking to the streets to promote social justice for illegal immigrants. (And our campaign is right on board with that.) What’s more, it’s having a tremendous influence on current immigrant legislation, as bill provisions are being changed to be more accomodating as a result. I also said at the Newman Center that wouldn’t it be heartening if we could mobilize the same kind of consistent, sustained <\/em>(on the street, from town to town, in the country’s face) protest — against abortion. Isn’t it time? Note: <\/strong>The reporter from Channel 3 News <\/em>said he’d recently done a story on a mayoral election in nearby Williams, Arizona. The current mayor had been running for another term uncontested. That is, he was uncontested until people started to informally suggest that “Buff,” a town dog, run for mayor as well. Although Buff never officially declared — as a write in he got 24%<\/em> of the vote in Williams. And now you know the rest of the story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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