Mutually Assured Destruction (on a planetary scale)

Watching the Bush press conference, there was nothing surprising to me on the Iraq front. This was a "shaping" effort towards the funding bill and the president spoke accordingly.

What did catch my ear was the response to the question on the landmark Supreme Court decision that CO2 is a pollutant. Bush made a very clear point that he values prosperity over any concerns about global climate change, but it was the clear expression of his rationale that echoed to me.

According to Bush, so long as the Chinese refuse to limit greenhouse gasses, the US will make no effort to do so. The funny thing is that the Chinese use the exact same argument in reverse.

The true crime is that those making the decisions and reaping the profits will not be around to pay the true costs.