A Dimmer View of Earth

Hearing about a lack in funding and interest in the environment during the Bush administration has started to sound like a broken record.  The truth of the matter is that a large portion of lobbyist and supporters during George W. Bush's presidential election/re-election campaign were comprised of a large group of oil corporations with an invested interest in protecting and ensuring that their business would not be disrupted by the government and that the government would issue regulations or acts that would benefit them.  The United States has a strong influence on other countries, however, our government chooses to direct this power towards military dominance and the global ambassador of democracy.  If our country enacted policies on preserving the environment and making regulations towards limiting our pollution output in a way that affects other countries, I feel that they would follow in our footsteps.  However, in reality, it seems as though unless a catastrophic event occurs that impacts our country in a way that is undeniably related to climate change and how our actions directly contributed to it, our government will continue to fail to do anything.