| Re: Earth: The Climate Wars
What struck me about the second episode was not about the oil companies coming up with reasons not to act (of course they will), but that the Republicans were worried they were vulnerable on the issue of the environment and developed a policy of denial to counter it.
We are clearly seeing the after-effects of this policy still filtering about now, but it's interesting that McCain's position is now different to Bush's. And even Palin has done an abrupt 360 on the issue now she's going for VP. So maybe we see far fewer attempts to deny the scientific evidence now the politics have changed?
Generally I liked the programmes - more informative and less sensationalist than most TV documentaries. |