Of all the problems we face today, none is more important--or urgent--than protecting the global environment. Bush 43 is rushing to sell leases for mining uranium in the most prized and pristine lands in the West: the Grand Canyon national park, Arches National Park, and other vital wilderness areas. Moreover, these wilderness areas drain into the Colorado River, which provides water for animals, people, and food crops from Utah to Mexico, most notably Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Think the folks who live there or eat food from those regions will mind a bit of radioactive sludge in their drinking water and produce? We are foolish if we fail to realize that all life as we know it is confined on one relatively small, relatively delicate bubble floating in infinite space. If we blow this one, we have no other place to go.