If you are affected right now by unemployment, loss of earnings or loss of hard earned savings, then the economy is going to be in the forefront of your considerations regarding who you should vote for in the upcoming General Election.
However, the long term sustainability of employment and a thriving society depends on having a healthy environment.
Our society (and the economic systems that we have created and can amend) is entirely dependent on the fundamental resources of healthy soils, clean water and air, a stable climate, and a healthy biodiversity.
Without these services provided by nature, the elaborate social structures and economic systems that we have created cannot function. No value is put on them, and their protection and enhancement features nowhere in the media coverage of the elections.
Let's change that.
There is almost no mention of the environment in the vast majority of the party manifestos. Here is your opportunity to see what their spkespersons have to say in response to our questions.
Spokespeople from An Taisce, Friends of the Earth, BirdWatch Ireland, Irish Doctor's Environmental Association, and the Environmental Pillar of Social Partnership are asking the candidates where they stand on six environmental issues. You can see them at The E Word
Please forward this email to as many people as possible and ask them to ask the questions that are not being answered
On the home page you can send messages to the parties that refused the opportunity to respond to our 6 main questions.
The E Word Team
ps: you can upload your own video comments, or simply share your opinions on the issues being discussed by text.
