Talk about going backwards. And, boy, has my home state fallen. Now, I learn that the Kansas legislature wants to...outlaw sustainability? Yes, they do.



Now the state’s “Committee on Energy and Environment” is proposing a law that would prohibit spending on anything that won’t set Kansas on a course to self-destruction. House Bill No. 2366 would ban all state and municipal funds for anything related to “sustainable development,” which it defines as: “development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come."



Had this law existed, the wind farms which are spurring development and providing farmers with new sources of income in Central and Western Kansas, the groundbreaking green buildings of Tornado ravaged Greensberg would not exist. And the state would be far more worse off.



Anti-progress far-right Republicans have hijacked Kansas from its populist, progressive roots. We were the leader of the Populist movement. We can be a leader for the Environment too. Call on the State Legislature to not pass this law making sustainability illegal, and to recognize the potential of the Sunflower State to lead the nation in clean, green energy and technology!