Bo Gardiner is an environmental analyst, naturalist, writer, and humanist/skeptic organizer. She's a former research hydrologist, EPA consultant, wildlife program director for a national NGO, and TV writer/producer. She holds a B.A. in communications and M.S. in environmental engineering sciences.
Bo writes on humanism, nature, science, skepticism and politics at her blog Under the Greenwood Tree. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter, and check out her videos on YouTube.
The Green Party didn’t just play spoiler in 2000 by handing Florida (and, therefore, the presidency) to George W. Bush. Ralph Nader was actively supportive of that idea. And now, Jill Stein is doing the same irresponsible thing, arguing that Donald Trump would be better in the White House than Hillary Clinton, even though the GOP actively opposes the Green Party’s mission. Read more
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein seems completely detached from reality — and her selfishness could pose a serious problem in the “eleven states where the difference between [Donald] Trump and [Hillary] Clinton is less than the sum of likely voters who say that they support either” of the third party candidates. Al Jazeera’s UpFront host Mehdi Hasan confronted Stein last week about this very issue: Read more
Earlier this week, Dr. Jill Stein was asked during a CNN Town Hall meeting about her religious beliefs. In June, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson was asked the same question. There are times when religion may influence a President’s public policy decisions, but when there’s no reason to think that’s going to happen, what are we gaining from this information? If anything, it only feeds into anti-atheist prejudice. Read more
