What Walker’s Actions Have to Do With Sustainability
Posted: 3:14PM March 22nd, 2011 | Comments
Bill Cronon's op ed in the New York Times today, March 21 2011, (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/opinion/22cronon.html?_r=1&ref=contributors) articulates some of the larger implications of Gov. Walker's recent actions. According to Cronon, a well-known environmental Historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Walker's aggressive use of power is not just about collectve bargaining and pension payments, but about lessons of good government. "It's about transparency and openness. It's about neighborliness, decency and mutual respect." Essentially it's about what makes a community function as a balanced, cohesive whole, with an eye to the greater good. These norms, which Walker trampled on, are the exact traits that lay the foundation for a just and sustainable community.
