George W Bush is undoing a century of environmental progress

[cal04]

George W Bush is undoing a century of environmental progress in America
A century ago, US President Teddy Roosevelt gave Americans the bountiful and enlightened National Wildlife Refuge System – the world’s first such system and one of America’s glories.

There are national wildlife refuges in every American state, important centres for the preservation of a sense of wildness in each place. In addition, these refuges have served as models for states like New York, which have created their own supplemental patchwork of refuges large and small.

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It is staggering how much environmental progress President George W. Bush is trying to undo. There is a cumulative sense over the last five years of a level of greed and exploitation encouraged by the White House that at some points of America’s history would have been the stuff of impeachment.

Mining, lumbering, oil interests and developers in general have never had it so good on public lands, much of which were set aside explicitly or in the spirit of protecting the wilderness. “Sadly, public reaction has been surprisingly muted,” the Albany Times-Union noted.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=54450

[MasonJar]

1. Bush et al have done so many evil things (and the media has

obscured all of them) that it is hard for the rest of the country to keep pace in attempting to stop the evil.

[IChing]

2. Did I tell you how much I hate these people?

It is the most criminal government in the history of the world.
Yes even more than the Nazis because of the vast natural wealth and legacies
of this nation that they are destroying.

WWII
$288,000,000,000 — cost to U.S.
$212,336,000,000 — cost to Germany
$111,272,000,000 — cost to France
$93,012,000,000 — cost to Soviet Union
$49,786,000,000 — cost to Britain
$41,272,000,000 — cost to Japan

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/peaceinthepacific/numbers

[3waygeek]

3. Not to mention

2+ centuries of American democracy.