The Gr8 G8 Deb8

[Ghoulish Delight]

So it begins.

And, well, it's predictably pathetic. The good news: Bush has suprisingly made a smidgeon of a concession. It ain't much, but he's gone on record as saying that green house gasses contriubte to global warming. Unfortunately, he's not excatly jumping to do anything significant about it. I suspect he'll still put more money and effort into sucking Alaska dry than towards ending our dependence on fossil fuels. But maybe this is the first step in the right direciton.

The bad news: In the same vein as Bush's "compromise", there doesn't seem to be as much compromise as wussy non-action and leaders being too wimpy to take a stand. All the language in everything they've come up with has been watered down to near meaninglessness.

Par for the course (hah, get it...'cause they're at a golf course!) for G8, I suppose. But, while I never expected any of the initiatives to make it through in the form they existed in coming in, it would have been nice to at least have those oficially tabled instead of just capitulating to Bush before he even arrived. Bunch of pansies, I say.