CEO's Urge Bush To Fight Global Warming

Cap-and-trade does not go far enough in my opinion, but regardless, this is a huge step in the fight against global warming. When the CEOs of major corporations start urging Bush to recognize and work to stop global warming, who is left to deny it?

CEOs plead for mandatory emissions caps

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief executives of 10 major corporations urged Congress on Monday to require limits on greenhouse gases this year, contending voluntary efforts to combat climate change are inadequate.

The call for immediate action came on the eve of President Bush's State of the Union address in which he is expected to reiterate that the industry on its own is making progress in curtailing the growth of heat-trapping emissions without the need of government intervention.

But the executives and leaders of four major environmental organizations said in a letter to Bush that mandatory emissions caps are needed to reduce the flow of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.

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Members of the group include chief executives of Alcoa Inc., BP America Inc., DuPont Co., Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co., and Duke Energy Corp.

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"It must be mandatory, so there is no doubt about our actions," said Jim Rogers, chairman of Duke Energy. "The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

Rogers is right. We must act now, but, knowing Bush, he will once again fail to do the right thing. Once again, the world will have to suffer the consequences of the man who inherits all his successes and turns them all into failures.

Throughout his life, Bush has done nothing but turn lemonade into lemons, and despite this, his daddy's friends continue to give him lemonade. Whether it was the oil companies he bankrupted, our country he is bankrupting, or the worldwide goodwill we had following 9/11, Bush has squandared it all. From preventing 9/11, to the war in Iraq, to capturing Osama bin Laden, he has been wrong or failed at everything. Now these CEOs are giving him the lemonade to make the switch from denying global warming to fighting global warming, and he will once again force our country and our world to waste valuable time that we should be using to save our planet and ourselves. He may literally be the death of us as he has been the death of so many of our troops and of so many innocent Iraqis. Bush is truly the worst president ever.