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Cod Canal and New York City's East River.
The United States was always the leader of technological innovation, but this is not a subject that inspires the Bush administration, members of which prefer oil industry cronyism to public support for energy and industrial innovation.
George W. Bush touts his role as commander-in-chief as reason enough to vote for him, but he's nothing but a buck private, a real slacker, when it comes to understanding or even being interested in environmental issues such as climate change and global warming. To Bush, science is something to be manipulated to win the support of core constituencies like the oil industry and the creationists of the Christian fundamentalist community.
In the long run, climate change is a greater threat to the world than terrorism, according to Sir David King, chief science adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted in the Business Week article. "Delaying action for a decade, or even just years," he insists, "is not a serious option."
When it comes to global warming and environmental protection, the American people have a clear-cut choice in the November election.
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