It’s Getting Hot In Here

On Wednesday, President Bush gave a speech demonstrating his lack of leadership on the issue of climate, reiterating the false idea that bold action and economic growth must be mutually exclusive and touting nuclear and coal as solutions to climate change.

SustainUS, a youth organization active at the international level, issued a statement today responding to Bush’s speech. Here is an excerpt:

“President Bush’s call for halting emissions by 2025 is just a guise for his opposition to the Senate proposals to stop U.S. emissions growth by 2012, which are much more appropriate,” says Juan Hoffmaister, a SustainUS policy advisor.  The most recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading scientific body on the subject, indicate that global carbon emissions must peak between 2015 and 2020 in order to avoid irreversible damage.  It is irresponsible for a country as powerful as ours to adopt a target so far beyond the time frame strongly advised by the leading international organization on climate change.

Click here to continue reading the response.