For the Bush administration to acknowledge that global warming is a fact and that it damages the ecosystem, but not to change its policies, is beyond irresponsibility; it is criminal.
What would we say of a train engineer who, upon seeing a school bus stuck on the tracks, doesn’t try to stop the train–even if he knows he can’t stop completely? If he doesn’t at least try to minimize the damage, we would call him a criminal.
It is not hard to imagine a time 40 years from now when millions are dying from famine, forced migration and war. Deaths that we will be responsible for because we did nothing to stop the runaway climate change.
And worse, we who use more of the planetary resources and emit more of the noxious gases than any other people fail to act, not in order to achieve some other lofty goal, but because we are just too greedy and lazy.
It is not hard to imagine a time when the U.S. will be branded a rogue state and its leaders as criminals greater than any war criminal. Greater, because this crime isn’t against a nation, or even a race, but it is a crime against the entire planet.
