Evironmental Activists praise Bush for doing more to protect environment than anyone

[Angel Heart]

Bush creates huge marine sanctuaries - Environment- msnbc.com

Bush creates three Pacific marine sanctuaries
Activists praise president, but also want to expand Marianas monument

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 11:21 a.m. PT, Tues., Jan. 6, 2009
WASHINGTON - Announcing the largest marine conservation effort in history, President George W. Bush on Tuesday designated three remote Pacific island areas as national monuments to protect them from energy extraction and commercial fishing.

"For sea birds and marine life, they will be sanctuaries to grow and thrive. For scientists, they will be places to extend the frontiers of discovery. And for the American people, they will be places that honor our duty to be good stewards of the Almighty's creation," Bush said at a White House ceremony.

The three areas — totaling some 195,280 square miles — include the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot on earth at 36,000 feet below the sea.

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[Agnapostate]

Guess he's going for one quick swipe. I wonder if he'll be excommunicated, like Richard Cizik basically was.

 

[jillian]

Bush creates huge marine sanctuaries - Environment- msnbc.com

No... they didn't say he did more to protect the environment than anyone. They said it was the largest MARINE conservation effort. Certainly to be admired and I applaud him for it. Too bad he also just proffered a rule that eviscerates environmental efforts on land to help his corporate buddies.

If you want to know what President did more for the environment than any other, it would probably be Richard Nixon, who started the EPA... and in terms of animal conservation, probably Teddy Roosevelt.

 

[RodISHI]

Bush creates huge marine sanctuaries - Environment- msnbc.com

It won't do much good for the Gulf unless someone can stop the burndown via chemical applications and the factory polluters along the waterways in the Midwest.

 

[Old Rocks]

Same for the dead zones that have just become a fact of life along the Oregon coast. Our actions in adding chemicals, whether fertilizers to our waterways, or CO2 to our atmosphere, are coming back to haunt us at the most basic level, the food chain.

 

[RodISHI]

Same for the dead zones that have just become a fact of life along the Oregon coast. Our actions in adding chemicals, whether fertilizers to our waterways, or CO2 to our atmosphere, are coming back to haunt us at the most basic level, the food chain.

That should be an eye opener for people and it seems it is not. It makes one wonder if the most simple life forms cannot survive this enviroment why do people think they can survive in such an enviroment.

 

[KittenKoder]

No... they didn't say he did more to protect the environment than anyone. They said it was the largest MARINE conservation effort. Certainly to be admired and I applaud him for it. Too bad he also just proffered a rule that eviscerates environmental efforts on land to help his corporate buddies.

If you want to know what President did more for the environment than any other, it would probably be Richard Nixon, who started the EPA... and in terms of animal conservation, probably Teddy Roosevelt.

The EPA is fucked up and should be dissolved.

 

[Old Rocks]

The EPA is fucked up and should be dissolved.

Wrong, absolutely wrong. The EPA should be headed by a real scientist and empowered.

 

[editec]

Environmentalists should be kissing Bush II's ass.

There is no finer way to protect the environment than to make the world's economy falter.

Of course, the greenest of the Greens would prefer that about half the world's population simply shuffle off and die, but they seldom mention that hidden agenda, because it isn't good politics to let on that that's really their agenda.

 

[RodISHI]

Wrong, absolutely wrong. The EPA should be headed by a real scientist and empowered.

True and it should not be one that has already been bought and paid for by lobbying chemical companies and industrialist.

There are so many feasable ways to cut down on pollution if we did not have so many of these greed mongers in leadership positions.

 

[AllieBaba]

Same for the dead zones that have just become a fact of life along the Oregon coast. Our actions in adding chemicals, whether fertilizers to our waterways, or CO2 to our atmosphere, are coming back to haunt us at the most basic level, the food chain.

What dead zones would that be?

 

[Enigma]

Very good news. Hopefully the we'll see marine conservation efforts continue in the future. Larger efforts towards the cleanup of the Great Pacific garbage patch would be a good step towards this as well.

 

[Agnapostate]

What dead zones would that be?

Don't listen to the heathen! If it's not in the book of Revelations, IT CAN'T BE TRUE!!!

 

[Old Rocks]

Same for the dead zones that have just become a fact of life along the Oregon coast. Our actions in adding chemicals, whether fertilizers to our waterways, or CO2 to our atmosphere, are coming back to haunt us at the most basic level, the food chain.

What dead zones would that be?

OK, Allie, here you are;

"Dead zones" off Oregon coast are unprecedented, may have global warming link - PDX Green - OregonLive.com

 

[Old Rocks]

Emergence of Anoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
F. Chan,1* J. A. Barth,2 J. Lubchenco,1 A. Kirincich,2 H. Weeks,3 W. T. Peterson,4 B. A. Menge1
Eastern boundary current systems are among the world's most productive large marine ecosystems. Because upwelling currents transport nutrient-rich but oxygen-depleted water onto shallow seas, large expanses of productive continental shelves can be vulnerable to the risk of extreme low-oxygen events. Here, we report the novel rise of water-column shelf anoxia in the northern California Current system, a large marine ecosystem with no previous record of such extreme oxygen deficits. The expansion of anoxia highlights the potential for rapid and discontinuous ecosystem change in productive coastal systems that sustain a major portion of the world's fisheries.
Emergence of Anoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem -- Chan et al. 319 (5865): 920 -- Science

 

[Epsilon Delta]

Guess it can't be ALL bad.