Bush's position is that the economic cost outweigh the benefits. Reuters News Service reported that an open letter to the president would appear in Time magazine signed by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former President Jimmy Carter, former Sen. John Glenn, financier George Soros, scientist Jane Goodall, retired newsman Walter Cronkite, Celera Genomics chief J. Craig Venter, biologist Edward O. Wilson and physicist Stephen Hawking. In fact, the spread of advanced cleaner technology is more of an economic opportunity than a peril. We urge you to develop a plan to reduce U.S. production of greenhouse gases. John Burgess Louisa Activists' scare tactics Earth has been in existence for 4 billion years, and Al Gore for 52.
Environmentalists prey on people with rhetoric that Earth is on the brink of disaster.
Environmentalists' agendas have a lot of double standards and hypocrisy associated with their message. The standards they impose on society are not the standards they reside under. The next time environmentalists preach their anti-capitalistic rhetoric, think of the millions of jobs being lost because of their hypocrisy and scare tactics. Jeff Howard Nicholasville Oil search a sign of greed President Bush is rushing headlong to repay his industrial supporters during the campaign by opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration. We need these resources, he says, to reduce our dependency on foreign oil.