Bush may feel he is being responsible to his citizens, but on a planetary scale he is being delinquent. This is not just my opinion but that of the European Community too. OK, now comes the potentially offensive bit. Having thought over both the environment and human behaviour within the environment for a good number of years, I believe that we need to devote a good chunk of resources to studying and better understanding an ecological model of human behaviour. I offer some unscientific observations in support of the alternative.
Addicts have an oil dependancy.
This dependancy grows over time. I assume the figures for the USA are similar. Well, look at plans to go into the ANWR to get at what is, in the big scheme of things, a fairly paltry amount of oil. And there's another characteristic. Of course, not all the blame can be put on Bush.