Another News editorial reflecting on its poor environmental record

The Snooze chastises, even castigates Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell for calling for “conservation not construction,” i.e., that Texas needs to stop building so many damned damns.

Here’s the tsk-tsk:

How disappointing. Conservation is important, but it alone can't supply booming population centers like Dallas/Fort Worth enough water.

Meanwhile, the Snooze can’t write editorials to mention how we can conserve more water than we do now, and do that on a more regular basis. It can’t talk about how much we could eliminate the need for more damned dams, in terms of acre-feet to not be built, if we implement specific water conservation strategies. And it can’t at all talk about the question of whether we need to manage population growth here.

Just one more proof that the same paper that fired Jim Frisinger and Timothy O’Leary at the beck and call of Smokey Joe Barton doesn’t “get” environmentalism.

(You haven’t seen anything much above the wishy-washy level on TXU’s coal-fired power plant proposal, have you?)