Deciding to bail out of the Kyoto Protocol however, places the US firmly on the road to becoming the world's number one environmental rogue state. Bush's ideologically driven policy may well sink the Kyoto Protocol. This potential geopolitical fracture should make it clear to even the staunchest right-wingers in the Bush administration that it is in their interest to curb carbon emissions and support the Kyoto Protocol. Rather than aid the oil industry, Bush should not drill in the Arctic Refuge. And he should invest our country's resources in energy efficiency and renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind and biomass.
Time is of the essence.
And G.W. Bush will have to reverse course soon unless he wants to go down in history as the global warming president. Joshua Karliner is executive director of CorpWatch. Email the web weaver.