Earth Equity News

Bush to G-8: 'Goodbye from the World's Biggest Polluter'. By Andrew Grice, London Independent, July 10, 2008. "President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit. As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.' President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would 'seriously consider' a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050. Bush in Chat Mode. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYTimes, July 10, 2008. "It wouldn't be a G-8 without a microphone mishap, and once again it was President Bush who was caught off guard during some pre-meal mingling."