Originally posted by RICHARD
While we do have a problem with pollution in our country, It's our problem, no one elses.
Richard, I am shocked at that statement!! Do you really think our pollution isn't anyone else's problem? The air pollution from all Ahnold's H2s just hangs above Sacramento and doesn't go anywhere else? The mercury-filled waters of the Mississippi River flow out of the Mississippi and....right back into the Mississippi??? Toxic fumes from our factories don't get blown over the Canada and the North Pole as the Earth orbits the Sun? Other countries are concerned about our pollution because they have to deal with it too. We have to deal with their pollution too, but the US produces roughly 25% of the Earth's pollution. The US is the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, yet only has 5% of the Earth's population. So to say that our pollution is only "our problem" is ludicrous.

If you mean that it's just our problem to deal with, then you agree with Bush on his decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol two months after entering office? Yes, as you stated, we do have protected area like National Parks and Forests...but George Bush wants to log them (like the Daniel Boone National Forest here in KY) or drill for oil in them (Alaska) or put roads in them (Yosemite). Why would he want to do something like that? HRMMMMMMMMMM let's think, could it be because of Mark Rey, the former timber industry lobbyist and Bush made his Agriculture Undersecretary, the post charged with overseeing the U.S. Forest Service??? I could go on...

A road not being built because of an endangered species isn't what we're talking about here. We're talking about things on a much much larger scale. Things that will effect the survival of this planet.

I am really disspointed in your opinion on this one.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/us.html
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock
http://www.xist.org/global/pop_data2.php
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000178.php
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinio...7_woods16.html
http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/rey.html