Earth Day is April 22nd, a day that has largely been the focus of left-leaning activists,

but a new book makes the case for why truly effective and sustainable environmental protection can only really be achieved

by embracing conservative values and common sense solutions. In this episode we talk with the author of the

book The Conservative Environmentalist, about why he thinks

Conservatives and Liberals should be able to find common ground on energy and environmental games.

I'm Daly Weyer, editor-in-chief John Bickley, it's April 21st, and this is a Sunday edition of Morning

Wire.

Joining us now is Benji Baker author of the conservative environmentalist

common sense solutions for a sustainable future.

Benji thanks for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me.

First as to the title of your book,

what is a conservative environmentalist?

Well, we think back to the days of the 1980s and 1990s

when environmental progress was actually championed by conservatives and almost every

conservative thought of themselves as an environmentalist.

That today has not been the case as it's become overly polarized and taken over as an issue by the

left. But to me a conservative is an environmentalist. A conservative environmentalist does

have alternative viewpoints to that of those on the left,

but conservatives inherently do care deeply about these issues.

We live in nature, we recreate in nature,

we rely on nature for a lot of our livelihoods and we've seated this ground to the other

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