'US Climate Policy Bigger Threat to World than Terrorism': "'In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism,' Sir David says.
The Bush administration was wrong to pull out of the Kyoto protocol, the international effort to limit the emission of greenhouse gases, and wrong to imply the protocol could adversely affect the US economy, Sir David says. 'As the world's only remaining superpower, the United States is accustomed to leading internationally co-ordinated action. But the US government is failing to take up the challenge of global warming.
'The Bush administration's strategy relies largely on market-based incentives and voluntary action ... But the market cannot decide that mitigation is necessary, nor can it establish the basic international framework in which all actors can take their place.'
Results of a major study showed yesterday that more than a million species will become extinct as a result of global warming over the next 50 years. Sir David says the Bush administration is wrong to dispute the reality of global warming. The 10 hottest years on record started in 1991 and, worldwide, average temperatures had risen by 0.6C in the past century."

What about some environmental security? Here in the "Homeland" we're dying by the tens of thousands every year from the effects of pollution for example. There's an asthma epidemic among kids. We're spending hundreds of billions on the FEAR that thousands or tens of thousands of us might die in a terrorist attack. But we know for sure that at least that many of us will die from environmental problems this year. And what does Bush do? Well he protects polluters, he allows more pollution, he encourages dirty fuels and dirty manufacturing and mining.
What the administration is doing is illegal in many cases. The courts have stopped them doing some of this. For example, gutting the clean air laws to favor polluters in the midwest. But these favors for campaign contributors should be criminal offences. And Bush should be seen for what he is, the greatest snake oil salesman in history.
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