When Terry Maple and I wrote ‘A Contract with the Earth’ a lot of people wondered why I challenged conservatives to develop a “green conservatism.”

We argued that protecting the environment was too important to allow the left to dominate the issue and that conservatives had a duty to find entrepreneurial, market-oriented, science-and-technology-based solutions for environmental challenges and maintaining biodiversity.

If you want a good example of the marvels of the natural world and why they are worth saving, I highly recommend joining the Pacific Whale Foundation on a whale-watching cruise. Callista and I had the marvelous opportunity to view these magnificent creatures off the coast of Maui last week, and it was an extraordinary, lifetime experience. We saw whales breaching (throwing their 80,000 pound bodies out of the water), slapping their tails and swimming around our boat.

In fact, Callista and I were so moved that we adopted Migaloo by making a donation to the Pacific Whale Foundation. Migaloo is possibly the only pure-white humpback whale in existence. It was last sighted off the Eastern coast of Australia in 2007. You can learn more about Migaloo here: MigalooWhale.org. You can also support the Pacific Whale Foundation here: PacificWhale.org.

One of the greatest challenges for our generation is to find new solutions that work for the environment and the economy, rather than accepting the left’s environmental solutions that weaken the economy through regulation, litigation, and high taxes.

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