Politics has always played a role within environmental needs since it ever seemed important to the people. Even our home land of Florida has been suffering from the un-sureness of our government on how they want to handle situations. A key item that environmentalist worry about is the preservation of the everglades. Conservationist have been doing many things to help protect the wetland; stopped plume hunts, preserved millions of acres of wetlands, mandated minimum flow to the everglades national park, and secured the largest nutrient clean up in history. With all this being done the everglades are still dying and the greatest enemy it faces is further delay. Despite the dangers of losing ecosystems and species forever there are always still nay-sayers that believe that it is just the course of life or that it is not important that we are losing it. These nay-sayers never seem to care until they see that taking a stand can benefit them towards an election or helping something they believe in. In the efforts the help the everglades the Clinton administration elevated an idea of nature over people and guaranteed 79 million extra gallons of water for the park. Many non-environmental interest groups though that this was ridiculous and unfair because it violated the original consensus process. With the uproar of the other interest groups the Clinton administration quickly backed out of their guarantee once again showing how politics play a role in the success or failure of our environmental needs. Although there are always people that oppose ideas that people have there are the other people that stand by and continue to fight for what they believe in. After a long traitorous road, the everglades bill to restore and preserve the everglades was finally signed.
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