Bush's war on nature

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com


"What follows next you've heard a hundred times: The Bush administration's environmental record is lousy. More than lousy, it is potentially disastrous. But why? At first glance, it's easy enough to understand. Philosophically, Republicans believe in the power of the marketplace to shape behavior. Their animosity toward government regulation is long-standing. They emphasize the rights of private-property owners over any notion of the commons, and so are comfortable letting corporations pursue profit at the expense of air or water quality. Obviously, a Texas oilman like George W. Bush and a former Halliburton CEO like Dick Cheney aren't about to object to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Caribou, they certainly believe, are expendable if they get in the way of our urge for faster-bigger-more.

The Bush administration's assault on environmental quality has, however, been so deliberate, destructive, and hostile that the usual explanations-while not wrong-are hardly adequate. During their time in power, Bush's officials have worked systematically and energetically to undo half a century of environmental law and policy based on hard-learned lessons about how to sustain healthy environments. Strikingly, they have failed to protect the environment even when they could have done so without repercussions from special-interest campaign contributors. Something more is going on. "

[prescole]

1. They hate their mother. The mothers. nt

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[OneBlueSky]

3. but to Bush, it's all so logical . . .

since the world is going to end anyhow, shouldn't humankind extract every last ounce of value from the planet in order to further enrich the elite class in the interim? . . .

after all, in the grand (and preordained) scheme of things, none of it will matter in the long (or not so long) run, heh? . . .