Letters to the Editor
January 2002

Will Bush approval ratings stay high?
President Bush is enjoying record approval ratings much like his father enjoyed during his foreign war a decade ago. Ironically he should be the least respected man in American history and time will bear this out. Presidents Bush junior and senior are the legacy of Ronald Reagan and these three men will have to take more responsibility for the imminent global warming calamity than any other three men that one can name.
Jimmy Carter was at least on the right track, trying to preach conservation and actually installing renewable energy technology on the White House roof—trying at least to take some small steps to protect the earth and set an example. Reagan, after taking office, not only took down the solar panels on the roof, he tried to debunk the environmentalists. Do you remember one of his famous lines: “trees pollute”? This kind of ignorance and wanton disregard for the biosphere was and is now repeated through both Bush administrations. Now George Bush junior is refusing to sign the Kyoto agreements which all nations of the world have signed.
When southern Florida begins to flood, when hydro-meteorlogical disasters continue to escalate as they have in the last decade, when Minnesotans cut the grass in December, when teaming millions of people start migrating north to our area and beyond, I wonder how G.W.’s ratings will hold up.
Don Johnson