Is this why bush refused to do anything about catastrophic climate change?

[alfredo]

&nsrefhttp://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14475-map-shows-front-lines-of-arctic-carveup.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts=news9_head_dn14475

Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway, Denmark and Iceland are rushing to stake claims on the Arctic seabed with the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, a race which made headlines last year when a Russian submarine planted a flag on the seafloor beneath the North Pole.

The nations are interested in the potential to exploit the seabed for fossil fuels, as research shows the Arctic ice cap is thinning fast. According to the US Geological Survey the Arctic Circle could hold 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough to meet world demand for almost three years.

Was bush and the other northern nations willing to risk world wide starvation for three years of oil?

[PDJane]

1. You'd put it past him?

That, and the end times beliefs.

[alfredo]

2. I'd put nothing past him. His cavalier attitude over the death and misery

he has caused lends weight to that belief.

He did admit that the melting arctic ice sheets was an opportunity for commerce. Of course he doesn't seem to care about the negative impact of the melting permafrost and what that melting will do to the environment world wide.

http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0221-methane.html

I guess the idea is to make the money before the damage becomes so severe that they are forced to quit.

[rox63]

3. I believe that's part of it

I also think they want to open artic shipping lanes for corporate use. No ice means open shipping channels across the arctic.

They are truly evil.

[alfredo]

8. That was one thing bush thought was good about the loss of the earth's

air conditioner.

[paparush]

4. Wait until they turn their attention to clean, potable, water. nt

[alfredo]

7. they have been. Read about the water wars in India. Arundhati Roy

has written on the privatization of our water supply. Bechtel got kicked out of Bolivia because they were so cruel toward the poor villagers. They raised the price so high, poor villagers could not afford water. When the villagers started collecting rain water to survive, Bechtel had their friends in government make rain water collection illegal.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. No

The reason is that it takes an effort to stop our behavior that is leading to global warming. The powers that be like things the way they are, because they are making a lot of money as it is.

[alfredo]

6. We're saying basically the same thing.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Yeah, we are, in a way

My point however is that I don't think the greedy assholes thought that far ahead, really...

[alfredo]

10. They knew the ice cap was melting, and if the people concerned with

the survival of the human species got their way, it would stay frozen.

[EstimatedProphet]

11. True.