In reevaluating George W. Bushs legacy there is more than enough failure to consider what with the failure to stop 9/11, torture, Katrina, Iraq reconstruction and did I mention financial collapse? As seriously formidable as this list is; there is more, so much more.
History may very well credit Bush with being the person who was responsible for dooming the planet. Joe Romm writing at Think Progress/Climate has been evaluating Bush's climate legacy for years. From 2008:
But just because he single-handedly stopped any international action on climate and reneged on his 2000 campaign pledge to regulate CO2 and stopped California from regulating tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions and muzzled climate scientists and forced congress to drop almost all non-oil related provisions to cut GHGs from the 2007 energy bill — that’s no reason to think the FHA (Future Historians of America), having previously named Bush the Worst President in American History will award him one of their rare Worst Leaders of All Time Awards, alongside such notables as Neville Chamberlain and Nero.
The headline quote comes from “Saleem Huq, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report on adaptation,” in a Greenwire (subs. req’d) article on Bush’s legacy.
So with all the areas of failure to Bushs legacy and to the American people we need to keep this in prospective. Destroying the world for future generations; now that is a legacy worthy of our 43rd president.
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