BUSH WHACKS THE ENVIRONMENT

This is a posting by my sister Jack, who hates Bush even more than I do, if that's possible..


So the polls now show that voters are more interested in national security and the economy than in our environment - easily understandable since this administration has presided over the worst economic and security issues in recent memory. However, I feel that the biggest threat to America and our beloved way of life is this president’s kowtowing to big business, allowing financial interests to overshadow the destruction of our planet.
We can recover from a failed economy; we can secure our borders and protect interests abroad once this administration retires into the life of obscene wealth that is obviously the ultimate of goal of men like George Bush and Dick Cheney, after padding their pockets with the favors of their protected industries. But the destruction of our land that they are condoning cannot be reversed.
EPA enforcement has dropped 58%, federal wetlands protection and lake and stream cleanup mandates have been drastically reduced, along with the repeal of regulations prohibiting companies from dumping waste into local waterways. Our national forests are being depleted, and while this administration’s opinion is that "the jury is still out" on global warming, 27 of 38 glaciers in Glacier National Park are gone!
Does any of that affect us directly? How about the fact that Bush has shifted the burden of clean up from the corporate polluters to the average American? How about the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned pregnant women and children against eating tuna fish, because of the mercury emissions from power plants, regulations against which this president has relaxed until well into the next decade? I fear for the world my grandson will inherit. How much more irreversible damage will this lame duck president allow, without the need to at least give the appearance of environmental responsibility for the sake of reelection?
How can a presumably intelligent leader of the free world show such complete disregard for our future? Perhaps the answer lies in his response to Bob Woodward’s question of how history will remember him: "History? We’ll all be dead".