On episode 93 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we get political on the topic of whether elected officials in the Democratic party are walking their talk when it comes to protecting the natural world, with Karen Breslin, democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate from Colorado.

-Most Republican politicians don’t hide their indifference towards nature

-Many Democrat politicians—including most of Colorado’s congressional delegation—are pushing legislation to spend huge sums of taxpayer dollars to log public forests

-Neither political party will acknowledge the root causes of the ecological crisis, much less address them

-The Democratic party might regain its identity—and conscience—by becoming actual champions of the natural world

(Disclaimer: Eco-Integrity Alliance and the Green Root Podcast do not endorse elected officials, however we are open to speaking with them about their stances on public lands and the natural world.)