by Ethel Smith

Created on: April 24, 2007   Last Updated: April 26, 2007

Global warming is a serious threat to the world and it's future. Although there has been much debate on this subject and, some would say, the evidence is inconclusive, I firmly believe this statement. Countries all around the world are now taking this problem seriously and trying in varying ways to tackle it. As the Bush administration comes to the end of it's term of office what has been their response to this new threat to world safety?

As a Brit, the Bush administration's approach to global warming seems to me to be:-

Pay it lip service.
Procrastinate.
Hope that other countries will be more environmentally friendly, and advise other countries to be so, by recycling and reducing their carbon emissions.
Carry on as always with their heads buried in the sand and hope that the scientists have got it wrong.
Apportion blame to any other country than the USA.

This probably sounds harsh and I'm sorry. I only have the news which I see and read over here to make my judgment on. From my assessment of the situation these comments are all I can surmise. The investment and radical changes, in industry and lifestyles, needed to begin tackling global warming are nowhere to be seen. If the Bush administration are making any definite decisions they would seem to be slow and minimal. Already it is more a case of damage limitations than putting things right. Consequently I feel that the Bush administration should get a move on and, instead of leading us all to war, lead us in something much more constructive which effects everyone.

Perhaps my view is biased but the press that this administration has received in the UK leaves me saddened and appalled. As the USA is still the most powerful country in the world, and one of the richest, it should lead by example. If the USA and its' citizens do not want to change their lifestyles a little to help save the planet for their children it is shortsighted and foolish. Although at the present many of the counties affected by global warming are not under America's umbrella this is set to change. One of the Bush administration legacies could have been a mush safer world either environmentally or politically, but unfortunately it has failed on both counts.

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