Can Bush Lead on Climate Change
Perhaps, just perhaps, President Bush is the leader whose legacy will be to have begun to address climate change in an adequate and significant fashion. It will either be this, or a legacy of having solidified trends that will ultimately destroy the Earth's atmosphere and the Earth itself. Can the Texas oil man lead on climate? We shall see.
As was the case when President Nixon went to China and President Reagan made overtures to the Soviet Union, when modern U.S. presidents have acted boldly — and often against expectations — they have changed the world. We can only hope that Bush has the same lofty ambition.
