After eight years, the whole world is ready to be rid of him. But the damage George W. Bush did to the environment will be around long after he goes back to clearing brush in Crawford. What exactly did he accomplish? We take a look at the good (yes, there was some), the bad, and the ugly.
- David Roberts sets the scene
- An interactive time line of Bush’s environmental actions
- The WTF moments that surprised even us
- Bush’s environmental team as Simpson characters
- Bill McKibben on the worst of the Bush years
- Jim DiPeso on the best of the Bush years
For McCain, it’s really all about the fake snow
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Sean Casten Posted 6:18 am
21 Jan 2009
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Pompey Road Posted 6:33 am
21 Jan 2009
I will have to stare out every day at the valley he helped destroy behind my home. My kids or grandchildren will have to look at this scar on the earth. Generations of my family lived in this valley and enjoyed the gifts that it provided us including the fresh water stream that is now under 1000 feet of crushed rock and overburden to get at a coal seam about two feet thick.
What the nation does not know is that it was not just my valley but belonged to the whole of this country. The southern Appalachian Mountains belong to the country at large as much as the Rocky or Catskill Mountains. What was destroyed for me, what will be destroyed in the future by George Bush's gift to his coal corporation friends will be his legacy in Appalachia.
We can only hope it will be someone's legacy to save Appalachia and stop this environmental disaster that is destroying the country's southern Appalachian forest. Destroyed forever for Mountain Top Removal and Valley Filling method of mining can never be reversed. There is no reclamation for MTR that is a big a lie as clean coal.
Yes George Bush's Legacy will be about as long lasting as you can get even when you measure in Geological epochs of time.
A legacy of total environmental destruction of the nations Appalachian Forest
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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Erik Hoffner Posted 7:16 am
21 Jan 2009
Net gain.
Erik
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stevenearlsalmony Posted 10:53 pm
21 Jan 2009
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
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amazingdrx Posted 11:37 pm
21 Jan 2009
Will the snoopers, kidnappers, WMD liars, torturers, and mass murderers at the highest echelons of the "regime that should not be named" (it feels creepy even mentioning the organ grinder and his chimp now), ever be tried here? I doubt it.
It's too bad, but this crisis kind of covers their asses. Wait a minute.. the crisis they created... helping them escape justice, and enriching their corporations? And preventing the loot they made off with from being confiscated? Yow. It makes Bin Laden look like an amateur.
Who's hiding in a cave? And who is living in opulent immunity?
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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