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Offline djones520

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Bush hates the environment! Wait... what?
« on: January 06, 2009, 05:19:09 AM »
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476584,00.html

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WASHINGTON —  The home of a giant land crab, a sunken island ringed by pink-colored coral, and equatorial waters teeming with sharks and other predators are being designated national marine monuments by President George W. Bush in the largest marine conservation effort in history.

The three areas — totaling some 195,274 square miles — include the Mariana Trench and the waters and corals surrounding three uninhabited islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean.

Each location harbors unique species and some of the rarest geological formations on Earth, from a bird that incubates its eggs in the heat of underwater volcanoes to a sulfur pool — the only other one exists on Jupiter's moon Io.

All will be protected as national monuments — the same status afforded to statues and cultural sites — under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The law allows the government to immediately phase out commercial fishing and other extractive uses.

However, recreational fishing, tourism and scientific research with a federal permit could still occur inside the three areas. The designations will not conflict with U.S. military activities or freedom of navigation, White House officials said.


I can't wait to see if any DUmmies will say anything about this.
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Re: Bush hates the environment! Wait... what?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 10:14:19 AM »
Bush hates the evironment, eh?  I'd say if you compare HIS house to, say, AL GORE, you'd find that our outgoing president is much more environmentally conscious...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/gore-bush-houses.htm
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Re: Bush hates the environment! Wait... what?
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 10:52:05 AM »
Bush hates the evironment, eh?  I'd say if you compare HIS house to, say, AL GORE, you'd find that our outgoing president is much more environmentally conscious...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/gore-bush-houses.htm

I've always loved that.   :bow:

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Re: Bush hates the environment! Wait... what?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2009, 01:26:17 AM »
I've always loved that.   :bow:

It is ironic that people like Gore who trumpet sustainable living, who actively seek to impose their model on others actually practice the opposite of what they preach.


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Re: Bush hates the environment! Wait... what?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2009, 08:23:51 AM »
It is ironic that people like Gore who trumpet sustainable living, who actively seek to impose their model on others actually practice the opposite of what they preach.



But, but , the Goracle purchases "green energy", for his house and also buys "carbon offsets", (from his own company).