Bush's flat-earth administration .
For years officials of the scientific community have made progressive statements against corporate and global policies concerning environmental issues. Only in the past few years it would seem scientists must be wrong, Or a more obvious answer the administration-aided by right-wing allies who have produced mainstream media and conservative think tanks
to further their goal- have been lying and skewing the truth. Running campaigns to suppress and concoct statistics and "facts" some of which come across as outright absurd. So to recap I have compiled a list of erroneous actions and propositions in case you may have missed them over the past 5 years. And cause Im bored.
1) My favorite and probably the most disturbing of them all. Bush's refusal to sign the Kyoto Treaty (A world treaty created in an effort to prevent global warming and promote clean air acts)Leaving the US one of three other first world countries not to sign including China, India and Iraq. As well he turned down plans proposed by the G8 summit to control emissions and water pollution saying "If it looks like Kyoto then No" His reasons against both, the potential economic impact.
2)The administration deregulated federal rules governing air pollution from old coal-fired power plants; emissions that cause global warming; ballast
water on ships contaminated with foreign species of plants and animals; sales of land tainted with PCBs; drilling for oil and gas on federal land; and scientific studies that underpin federal regulations.
3)W. has also cut or diverted funding of the Superfund allowance - an EPA program that forces and aids in the clean up of environmentally devastated lands such as Hanford WA, Harbor Oil INC in portland OR, Eastland Woolen Mill in Corinna, MA. Just a few in a list of thousands of smelting mills, pulp mills, and chemical plants. To see if your near one heres the EPA's Superfund web site.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/
4)Noticeable on a more current level was the cumulative fund reduction to the core of Engineers-regardless of repeated requests to strengthen and raise levies around New Orleans. Also a factor, the merger of FEMA and Home land security giving priority to US defense over disaster relief.
5)Oil and natural gas drilling in alaska passed despite endangered species act and impact of local lands. Reasons given by the administration were that it would help feed our energy consumption as well as take some dependence away from foreign resources. However some argue that the reserves in these areas are to high in sulfur and the US, according to EPA standards, would not benefit. More likely the oil and gas would be ship over seas to China and India.
6)And though it would seem that joining the world in an effort to breath clean air, eat hormone and DDT free foods, and drink clean water would have "devastating economic repercussions" outsourcing wont. Since W shoved his way into office some 400,000 jobs have been outsourced over seas aided by tax incentives, cheap labor, and lax eviromental laws in most third world countries. It would seem that no one has sent him a memo declaring over two million jobs have been reported lost since 2000.
Well a short list of the hundreds of challenged laws, political infractions and basically a big fuck you to what activists and earth minded politicians have worked for over the years. Our "President" sets a fine example for a country that per-capita uses the largest percent of the worlds natural resources.
So if you bothered to read this far and are left seeking answers Im sorry but I have none just a head full of disturbing info. However education may lead to more informed decisions and action from future generations.
KSin Point
to further their goal- have been lying and skewing the truth. Running campaigns to suppress and concoct statistics and "facts" some of which come across as outright absurd. So to recap I have compiled a list of erroneous actions and propositions in case you may have missed them over the past 5 years. And cause Im bored.
1) My favorite and probably the most disturbing of them all. Bush's refusal to sign the Kyoto Treaty (A world treaty created in an effort to prevent global warming and promote clean air acts)Leaving the US one of three other first world countries not to sign including China, India and Iraq. As well he turned down plans proposed by the G8 summit to control emissions and water pollution saying "If it looks like Kyoto then No" His reasons against both, the potential economic impact.
2)The administration deregulated federal rules governing air pollution from old coal-fired power plants; emissions that cause global warming; ballast
water on ships contaminated with foreign species of plants and animals; sales of land tainted with PCBs; drilling for oil and gas on federal land; and scientific studies that underpin federal regulations.
3)W. has also cut or diverted funding of the Superfund allowance - an EPA program that forces and aids in the clean up of environmentally devastated lands such as Hanford WA, Harbor Oil INC in portland OR, Eastland Woolen Mill in Corinna, MA. Just a few in a list of thousands of smelting mills, pulp mills, and chemical plants. To see if your near one heres the EPA's Superfund web site.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/
4)Noticeable on a more current level was the cumulative fund reduction to the core of Engineers-regardless of repeated requests to strengthen and raise levies around New Orleans. Also a factor, the merger of FEMA and Home land security giving priority to US defense over disaster relief.
5)Oil and natural gas drilling in alaska passed despite endangered species act and impact of local lands. Reasons given by the administration were that it would help feed our energy consumption as well as take some dependence away from foreign resources. However some argue that the reserves in these areas are to high in sulfur and the US, according to EPA standards, would not benefit. More likely the oil and gas would be ship over seas to China and India.
6)And though it would seem that joining the world in an effort to breath clean air, eat hormone and DDT free foods, and drink clean water would have "devastating economic repercussions" outsourcing wont. Since W shoved his way into office some 400,000 jobs have been outsourced over seas aided by tax incentives, cheap labor, and lax eviromental laws in most third world countries. It would seem that no one has sent him a memo declaring over two million jobs have been reported lost since 2000.
Well a short list of the hundreds of challenged laws, political infractions and basically a big fuck you to what activists and earth minded politicians have worked for over the years. Our "President" sets a fine example for a country that per-capita uses the largest percent of the worlds natural resources.
So if you bothered to read this far and are left seeking answers Im sorry but I have none just a head full of disturbing info. However education may lead to more informed decisions and action from future generations.
KSin Point