Onion or Reality?
At first, I couldn’t tell if this was a cleverly disguised Onion article. Has he gone mad?
In his address, Bush called on “all the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions, including developed and developing nations,” to come together and “set a long-term goal for reducing” greenhouse emissions.
“By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem, and by setting this goal, we commit ourselves to doing something about it,” he said.
Of course he can commit the US to greenhouse emission reduction now — he’ll be out of office by the time any real progress and changes have to be made. And then the economic concerns and wobbles can be blamed on his successor. Meanwhile, he removes some tarnish from his record by at least acknowledging the problem before he leaves office.