Strategic Ignorance
Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progess
Chapter One
Red in Tooth and Claw
A Compassionate Conservative
Joins the Ruthless Right
Most Americans know that George W. Bush is not an environmentalist. Unlike
more than 70 percent of the American public, he cannot bring himself to
use the "e" word to describe himself. (Even Vice President Dick Cheney
thinks of himself as "a pretty good environmentalist, though the Sierra
Club may not agree with that.") In truth most Americans do not trust
Republican politicians on the environment, and they certainly do not trust
oilmen. Bush is both. His polling numbers on protecting clean air, water
and wild places have remained consistently poor.
But few Americans realize that there is more to it than bad instincts on
endangered species or a desire to help out his oil buddies. In fact, Bush
has done his best, in only three years, to break our national compact on
environmental progress and turn the clock b ... read full excerpt from Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress ebook
