Bush? Is he really OUR president?

Bush is a negative representative of this country; he makes us look like a bunch of fools to Brazil and other countries who are taking the correct humane measures to preserve our planet.

There was an oil crush in the 1970's and I believe we helped Brazil move away from fossil fuel; but did we? No! Bush is addicted to the Middle East. I guess god wants to get back home...fine send him there. He preforms more like their president than ours anyway.

Brazil is not wasting one bit of fiber that comes from seas of sugar cane fields; what is not used as sugar is burned as ethenol. By next year they will be totally petroleum free. Did you hear that Mr. Bush? What are you doing to decrease global warming and petroleum dependency? Scientists have been warning us for decades but environmentalists and lawmakers have been arguing for years about if the grim prediction was even true. They know it was, they just didn't want to deal with it; or wanted to argue like children over it.

Well it just so happens what human activity has caused a speed up the process which now cannot be ignored. Didn't I state in an earlier blog that our government is retroactive; probably never even heard of the word proactive; accept maybe where winning the state of Florida in an election year is concerned. Evidently enough CO2 (causing greenhouse effects) has been pumped into the sky to trap the heat that flows from the sun near the earth rising global temperatures.

Why did Americans allow the problem to get this bad? Well, many naysayers were on the payrolls of energy companies. Bush did and still allows corporations to voluntarially cut back on emissions that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Now you know if it's not cost effective corporations (some of the largest lobbyiest groups ever) will not change emissions methods unless forced and Bush knows this and is giving them leaway. The hell with you average American middle class workers (some with two jobs now because of allowed out scouring, off shoring and shipping in of greencarded immigrants) who contributes the highest percentage to the federal tax base - the hell with you!

By popular demand only ( it all depends on votes and profits) Bush had to force the auto industry to build cleaner performing vehicles (he also had to force them to make cars safer...your life depends on their cost basis....now how does that make you feel. Foreign vehicles were the first to engage safety standards. Oh, let's just build a hydrogen bomb and blow them up for being so humane!). Even Evangelical Christians so wrapped in conservatism are beginning to change their minds, surprisingly so. So says TIME/ABC News/Standord University study polls show that just under 90% of the population thinks that the government should now take measures to cut down on global warning. Gee, I hope it's not to late retroactive America.

We all know for a fact decisions are based on voting polls and where actual profits lie and not on concerns for human or environmental health. Get real people! Maybe, there was a time when I was a kid (a very short time) that I actually thought the government was looking out for me and had my best interest at heart - you know like a good parent :). I was so wrong! Actually, on both counts!

Finally, we see that there is a problem; but we really do not yet see the solution. For the past one hundred years the world's temperature has increased very slowly but is speeding up. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if the population doubles every sixty years that would mean more growth and therefore more fuel consumption and waste expenditure therefore more global warming. Dah!

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon; burning forests reduces oxygen and increases drought; rising temperatures melt polar ice and permafrost; less ice means more heat which means even less ice and melting ice raises sea levels inundating low coastal areas. Looks like insurance companies which keep rebuilding even more expensive homes on the Hamptons after hurricanes destroyed them will soon have to build them way up high on stilts! Or move the Hamptons closer in...because they ain't gotta be there. Next, scammers instead of saying. " I have a bridge to sell you" will be saying: "Say, I have a nice piece of coastal property to sell ya". Sucker!

But just as the ordinary citizen with a wallet full of credit cards maxes them out and lives on the edge only one paycheck away from bankruptcy and homelessness, our government has taken on that same head in the sand attitude regarding the conditions of our environment and the air we breath and that of which your children will breath. If your not breathing, your not living on the edge...

Nasmaste!