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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (154339)	6/19/2001 8:22:22 PM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 769670

LOL! A thief he may be but not a petty one. eom

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (154339)	6/19/2001 10:14:43 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

U.S. Greener Than European Hypocrites. newsmax.com Sick of Europe's holier-than-thou attitude on environmental issues? It's all a sham. Gregg Easterbrook, a senior editor at the liberal New Republic, notes that "American ecological standards are far more strict than European rules, and have been for 20 years or more." "'Europe is now the world leader on environmental issues,' the Swedish environment minister, Kjell Larsson, said as Mr. Bush arrived in his nation. But Paris today has worse smog than Houston; water quality, especially of rivers, is lower in Europe than in the United States; acid rain reduction has been more rapid in the United States than in Europe; European Union nations like Greece, Italy and Portugal still discharge huge volumes of untreated municipal waste water, a practice all but banned in America. In addition, the European Union did not act against leaded gasoline till more than a decade after the United States; the forested percentage of the United States is higher than the forested percentage of most European countries, while America has fewer threatened species than Europe; and many other environmental indicators favor the United States," Easterbrook wrote in Sunday's New York Times. He also noted something NewsMax.com has reported but most other U.S. media for some reason ignore: "The Bush administration's rejection of the Kyoto global warming treaty, supposedly bad news, actually could not have been scripted better. European Union leaders got to repeatedly denounce Mr. Bush for saying the United States will not ratify Kyoto — though no European Union nation has ratified it, either. After the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio, when Mr. Bush's father declared that the United States would not accept mandatory greenhouse-gas reductions, he was lambasted by European leaders, who vowed prompt, decisive action to impose restrictions on their own. They did nothing." ....... tom watson tosimwee