Well, That Sucks

The UK's Observer has reported that the Pentagon, not exactly the paragon of environmental protection, has issued a secret report to President Bush stating that, in less than twenty years, drastic climate change could result in a global catastrophe causing the death of millions.

Bummer.

One would hope that an administration, even one with as abysmal an environmental record as George W. Bush's, particularly in regards to global warming, will take this rather distressing news as sign of a need for real change, and not as pre-publicity for the latest disaster flick by the makers of INDEPENDENCE DAY. Of course, one would also hope that an administration would have accepted the reams of scientific data demonstrating that global warming is a reality sooner than 2002. And one would further hope that an administration, on finally admitting that global warming was fact and not a bed-time story told to scare by oil and gas lobbyists to scare their children, would implement a policy to decrease the greenhouse emissions causing global warming, not increase them.

One would hope.

Me, I'm hoping to not spend my fiftieth birthday struggling to survive in a postapocalpytic war zone.