No conceivable Bush (or Clinton, or G.H.W. Bush) administration energy strategy aimed at slowing or reversing global warming — least of all ratifying the Kyoto treaty — would have protected lives or averted property destruction on the Gulf Coast. Think of smart energy policies as you might of tobacco taxes: good idea, but they probably wouldn’t have saved your Uncle Ned from lung cancer.
So write Grist‘s own Dave Roberts and Chip Giller in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Read the rest for yourself.
