Are We Debating the Right Topics?

Bob Yaro, quoted in The Geography Of Nowhere:

"When they come to chronicle the decline of this civilization...they are going to wonder why we were debating flag burning, abortion, and broccoli eating instead of the fundamental issues of how we live and use the environment."

I will come back to this. Today, in Virginia, our illustrious leaders further buried their heads in the sand and I want to juxtapose the two issues.