Bush Becoming Environmental Odd Man Out

[rodeodance]

There is just this contact need to push back, fight yell, against these policies. In the end it is the people-that ARE responsing.
It makes me so angry!!


From an email I got this am:
BushGreenwatch wrote:

April 25, 2005 | Back Issues
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> Bush Becoming Environmental Odd Man Out
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> The Bush Administration has become the environmental "odd man out". Europe has replaced us as the global leader in spreading progressive environmental reforms. The European Union has much stricter regulation of toxic chemicals than we do. There the burden of proof invariably falls on the manufacturer to prove a product is reasonably safe before it can enter the marketplace. We're not nearly so cautious.
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> Virtually the entire international community has been more aggressive than us in setting deadlines and quotas for meeting pollution reduction goals to alleviate global warming. Even in the developing world, China is enacting tougher vehicular fuel economy and emission standards than exist on our shores.
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> Europe has eclipsed us in launching the gradual transition from a fossil fuel economy to reliance primarily on clean, renewable energy sources. Applications of solar and wind energy are far more widespread in Europe and Japan than here, even though we pioneered many of the technologies.
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> The situation is not much better for Bush and company on the domestic front. Americans of all political persuasions are backing away from the president's environmental policies. Despite Bush's skepticism towards the threats posed by global warming, many major American multi-national corporations have taken their cue from stricter foreign environmental requirements. They are instituting their own pollution reduction and energy conservation programs.
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> Former Reagan Administration officials are urging President Bush to be more aggressive than he has been on energy conservation and alternative fuels.
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> Bush's concern that the cost of implementing global warming curbs will have a chilling effect on our industrial output has been refuted by an agency within his own bureaucracy. The Energy Information Administration concludes that restrictions on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would have a negligible impact on the U.S. economy.
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> A number of states are not waiting for the president to see the light. They are moving ahead with compulsory limits on auto and power plant emissions far more stringent than federal standards. Although Bush has reneged on his promise to regulate power plants' carbon dioxide emissions contributing to global warming, the attorney generals of eight states are seeking to set things right by suing five delinquent electric utilities. Bush may be sluggish in mandating that utilities commit to a certain percentage of renewable energy use, but 18 states have enacted renewable energy standards that will save consumers more than $10 billion.
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> The president is encountering growing resistance --often from traditional allies--to his plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Range's (ANWR) coastal plain and huge swathes of remaining undeveloped land in the Rocky Mountain states. It's no small wonder. By simply pumping up their tires to the proper pressure, Americans would free up as much oil as is expected to be derived from the unique ANWR wilderness. Regarding the Rocky Mountain region, approximately 85 percent of its oil and gas is already available for leasing.
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> Increasingly aware of these realities, a majority of Americans oppose industrial activity in ANWR. The governors of New Mexico and Wyoming have objected to Bush's proposed energy development plans in their respective states. Long-time Republican ranchers, farmers and hunters in the Rocky Mountain region suddenly find themselves parting ways with their president and collaborating with environmental organizations previously viewed as adversaries.
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> A typical example is Tweeti Blancett, a New Mexican rancher who ran the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign in the northwestern part of her state; she is now organizing ranchers against energy development on federally-owned grazing land.
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> Other loyal constituencies are also distancing themselves from Bush's environmental policies. A number of Evangelical Christian organizations are lobbying for measures to reduce the threat of global warming, and to strengthen the Endangered Species Act that the president would like to see diluted.
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> George W. Bush may say the politically correct things to celebrate Earth Day 2005, but his policies are inexorably propelling him towards "green" isolation.
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[peacetalksforall]

1. The earth and its people 'don't get no respect' from us.

We feel that earth resources beneath the people in different countries is for our corporations.

We feel that our corporations can build or invent any kind of energy or consumer device they want and disregard health safety factors.

We feel that trashing space for corporate gain under the guise of progress is OK.

We feel that loose or no rules on pollution is best for our corporations.

We feel that it is OK for the FDA to blink in favor of corporations.

We feel that a lot of love, devotion, and attention must be paid to corporate lobbyists.

And yet, we're perfectly happy to place our fiscal existence in the hands of China and Saudi Arabia and pile up war debt by millions on top of millions. www.costofwar.com

Cheney must go...he led an evil plan in Iraq for corporations and it backfired.

Rumsfeld must go...he is behind the loss of billions in DOD and allows iffy weapons, space, and database programs to be awarded to corporations.

PNAC and the corporate military banking cabal must go.

These people don't represent the good citizens of the U.S. They take advantage of the citizens in every way they can. By the corporation, for the corporation, of the corporation.

Start by educating others.

[Atlas Mugged]

2. "Becoming"???

In 2000, he ran on a platform that was blatantly anti-environment.