Bush = danger to environment?

[srobert]

I've always been kind of neutral on Bush's election an re-election but the guy is seriously starting to scare me off. Since he's been re-elected, not a week pass by without me hearing about him loosening some environmental law or opening some wildlife reserve to commercial exploitation.

I've googled some of the headlines I remembered reading about.

I'm no tree hugger but sounds to me that he's a little short sighted with his environmental decisions. Kind of a "I-won't-be-around-anymore-when-things-go-boom" attitude.

December 1, 2004
Massive salmon habitat cuts proposed
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/01/salmon.plans.ap/index.html

November 29, 2004
Pro-Bush think-tank calls global warming `a myth'
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/11/29/2003213042

November 12, 2004
U.S. OKs Commercial Drilling in Alaska Oil Reserve
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20041112/sc_nm/energy_alaska_drilling_dc

November 6, 2004
Bush Stands by Rejection of Kyoto Treaty
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-07.htm

July 13, 2004
Bush plan drops logging ban for national forests
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/13/forest.rules.change.ap.ap/

February 2, 2004
Bush Budget Cuts Environmental Funding by 7%
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0202-06.htm

December 23, 2003
Bush Administration Guts Protection of Tongass National Forest in Alaska
http://www.wilderness.org/NewsRoom/Release/20031223.cfm

November 12, 2003
Bush Administration Allows More Snowmobile Use in Yellowstone
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife/new/prairie/bison/bushsnowmobiles.html

January 28, 2003
President wants to triple the deduction on biggest gas-guzzlers.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2003/01/28/edit28.htm

[zimv20]

December 23, 2004
Bush Administration Guts Protection of Tongass National Forest in Alaska
cool! news from the future! :-)

yeah, this stuff has been happening over the past 4 years. doesn't get much national attention. perhaps you remember the short stay of one christine todd whitman as EPA administrator.

[srobert]

cool! news from the future! :-)

LOL. Ok, you got me there. Little typo. ;) Corredcted it.

[daveL]

Bush is a catastrophe on all fronts, but his attitude toward environmental issues is appalling. The man just doesn't give a *****; it's all about money and supporting his cronies. What a travesty. Weep for the children.

[edesignuk]

Bush is an arrogant mother-****er when it comes to the environment, he just really doesn't seem to give a ****, it's quite incredible.

[zimv20]

a short while ago, i heard on All Things Considered that a bush plan, 2 1/2 years in the making, will remove federal protections for 80% of the salmon breeding areas in <insert correct geographical area, i think it was Oregon>.

sorry for the lack of specificity; i was driving.

[StarbucksSam]

Bush is a danger to a lot more than the environment. Like, how much oil do they really KNOW is in Alaska to justify taking away the homes of all of those animals? They only have estimates.

[dotnina]

This is another reason why all the pro-Dubya-ness grates on my nerves. Even if you agree with everything he’s done domestically and internationally, how can you claim that so much destruction of the environment is a good thing? You can't undo this kind of ****.

It’s been said before, but it needs to be said again: Sorry Everybody (http://www.sorryeverybody.com) (especially you, environment).

[Xtremehkr]

Yes.