More Hot Air From Bush

“Disappointments on Climate” – Editorial – December 17, 2007

Disappointment is far too weak a word to describe the actions of the White House, the entire Bush administration and the Congress. As Tom Friedman pointed out in an Op/Ed piece this weekend that “later is now.” What we have learned so dramatically from the likes of Al Gore and his colleagues at the U.N., is that doing nothing will have catastrophic consequences for the entire planet.

Continued tax breaks for major energy companies, no plan of any kind to develop alternative sources of energy, and the complete failure of anyone in America to hold the Bush administration’s feet to the fire, have made us a pariah around the world. With the entire world looking to America for direction and leadership on Climate Change, we gave all the inhabitants of planet earth a lesson in greed, avarice and contempt.

Henry A. Lowenstein