Bush Loves Fish

When reading these two articles I find Bush's change of heart very interesting. I guess the question that the audience has when reading the first article about how Bush is trying to protect marine life in a large area is why the sudden change of heart when leaving office. No where in the article does it say why he is doing this, the best reason I can think of is because maybe he realized how much damage he has actually caused to the US and feels bad. After reading the second article about Bush's environment sins, I would feel bad too if I were him.

Bush's environment sin number two:

"Bush's vows to veto legislation that would limit greenhouse gases have consistently undermined Congress' feeble attempts to do anything serious about global warming, such as capping emissions."

To me this doesn't make sense because if Bush was concerned for the marine life then wouldn't he want to do something about global warming. Doing something about all the greenhouse gases would have been a good place to start considering how the number one greenhouse gas, CO2, can cause the ocean to become more acidic. Which I can imagine must not be good for the marine life seeing as they would have to adapt to a new habitat.

Bush's environment sin number four:

"Not once during the Bush administration has the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service voluntarily sought to list a species as endangered or threatened, offering it more protections."

Although he has done many things to hurt the environment I think what we have to look at here is how he is making an effort to make a difference in the environment someway now. Which is better then him leaving office and not having done anything at all.

"While he has resisted imposing mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change and has opened large areas of the nation to drilling, mining and other use of resources, by the end of his term he will have protected more ocean than any person in history. "

I also noticed a lot in the article how fishermen are getting mad because they want to be able to fish in a public area.

"If you're going to keep the public out of a public area, you need a darned good reason to do that"

This made me wonder, why do humans think they own the world? The first sign of life was a single cell organism, and after animals, so it makes me wonder why do humans have their rights, but animals don't have theirs? Technically they were first and although we may be smarter shouldn't we be considerate? And if we were so smart, wouldn't we be considerate?

Bush Protects Marine Life
Bush Enviornment Sins