"Bush will go down in history as possibly a person who has doomed the planet"

[bananas]

Long article at climateprogress.org:

http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/13/bush-will-go-down-in-history-as-possibly-a-person-who-has-doomed-the-planet/

“Bush will go down in history as possibly a person who has doomed the planet”

Some people just don’t think President Bush has done a terribly good job on climate change.

But just because he single-handedly stopped any international action on climate and reneged on his 2000 campaign pledge to regulate CO2 and stopped California from regulating tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions and muzzled climate scientists and forced Congress to drop almost all non-oil-related provisions to cut GHGs from the 2007 energy bill — that’s no reason to think the FHA (Future Historians of America), having previously named Bush the Worst President in American History will award him one of their rare Worst Leaders of All Time Awards, alongside such notables as Neville Chamberlain and Nero.

The headline quote comes from “Saleem Huq, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report on adaptation,” in a Greenwire (subs. req’d) article on Bush’s legacy. It continues:

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[mwb970]

1. A truly, truly terrible president.

The two worst tragedies to befall America in its relatively short history are: (1) the Civil War; (2) the george w. bush administration. Nothing else comes close. The only good thing to come out of this horrible 8-year nightmare is the defeat and hopefully the marginalization of the whole damned Republican Party! Now if Fox "News" and right-wing hate radio would just go away....

[madokie]

4. Those two entities has got to go

hate radio and fox lies.

[bahrbearian]

2. Why is "Possibly" in the title?

[jeff30997]

3. Good question.

:shrug:

[Turbineguy]

5. Well, he did collapse the economy.

That might help. I think the Gore plan was to fix the problem without economic collapse.

[tom_paine]

6. VERY probably. Though it is hard to lay it all on him, 2001-2008 might have been the time

which we crossed the "Point of No Return" into the Unrecoverable Zone.

In that regard, yes, indeed, it may very well be that it's now too late. That the human species (well, not all of it, the usual 0.01% of us) has decided to go for overshoot, dieback, and probably extinction within 10,000 years, and that the years 2001-2008 were when it became solid and unstoppable as a freight train coming up the tunnel.

Look, a light! say the gullibly clueless, which is to say ALL of us, including me.