In Bush World - the environment

In Bush world, global warming doesn't exist and human activity has nothing to do with it if it does - even if government scientists say Climate Change Laid to Humans: Report Warns There's 'No Doubt' Industry is Primary Cause (Perlman, S.F. Chronicle 12/04/03).

In Bush world if you want to stop forest fires you cut down the trees, and by the way, you can get rid of those pesky endangered species regulations in the process (New Forest-Thinning Policy Drops Safeguard for Wildlife Shogren & Simon, LA Times, 12/04/03).

In Bush world altruistic corporations concerned about the health of the earth limit their own emissions (US hails own climate policies, Blunt, BBC, 12/01/03), and you hire resource exploitation companies to write the plans for protected lands (Mining leaders drafting Steens blueprint, Milstein, The Oregonian, 12/03/03)>

In Bush world you preserve the wilds for the future by giving them over for corporate exploitation (Liquidation of the Commons, Werbach, In These Times, 11/21/03).

In Bush world the ozone layer doesn't exist (Ozone Layer 'Sacrificed' to Lift Bush's Re-Election Prospects, Lean, Independent/UK, 11/23/03).

While Bush rants to save marriage from the gays, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. accuses him of Crimes Against Nature, NRDC, 11/23/03).

And one must wonder if pollution is even in his vocabulary: "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."...George W. Bush

Somehow I think that the world Bush lives in and the one we live in is not the same. and the president agrees: "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." ...George W. Bush

[Quotes from Al Baakouka: Political Humor, Edited by S Suwellam, London]

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