Crashing the Party, by Ralph Nader: on Environment


Ralph Nader: Dems surrendered to the auto industry on safety & pollution

Not surprisingly, the 48-page Democratic platform was a model of avoiding both the spiraling power of big business and the economic disconnect between the rich and the rest of us. This is the party that abjectly surrendered for eight years to the superprofitable auto industry on fuel efficiency, safety, and pollution control--jeopardizing the global environment that Al Gore so feels for--sacrificing lives, limbs, and health. Accordingly, the committee rejected a thoughtful plea by one witness to include a sentence advancing auto safety. Fifty years after Western European nations, coming out of the rubble of World War II, provided universal health care for their people, Al Gore’s platform described his vision for the world’s richest country as “step by step” toward full coverage with no specific attainment date.
Source: Crashing the Party, by Ralph Nader, Chapter One Oct 9, 2002

  • The above quotations are from Crashing the Party:
    How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President
    Taking on Corporate Governance in an Age of Surrender    , by Ralph Nader.
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