The greening of Bush

Source: The Guardian

The greening of Bush
The US climate change summit is a clear attempt to undermine UN talks and a deliberate move to wreck our last chance to avoid disaster.
Tony Juniper

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A huge shift in US policy; finally an emphasis on the real challenge of the 21st century; the world saved? Sadly not I fear, or at least not yet.

Far from signalling a fundamental change of heart, to many eyes the meeting is just the latest phase in the Administration campaign to block orchestrated international action on global warming. Environmental campaigners, including my colleagues from Friends of the Earth USA, will today demonstrate outside the meeting in Washington DC to mark the apparent change of direction from Bush with the slogan "wrong turn".

From the start of his presidency, Bush put in place anti-environmental policies on everything from protected areas to pollution control. The star in the crown for the old "free"-market corporate ideologues was, however, his deep opposition to taking action on climate change.

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Today's meeting is a transparent attempt to undermine UN talks and as such amounts to a deliberate move to wreck humanity's collective last chance to avoid disaster. The sooner he is gone the better.


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At the risk of sounding repetitive: The sooner he is gone the better.

in some depth are generally agreed that it's too late to avoid disaster . . . the best we can do now is to learn/invent new ways to cope with it and, to whatever extent possible, manage it (although managing it to any meaningful extent may well be a pipe dream at this point . . .