he is to leave office, he has done what is arguably the most contradictory thing he has done throughout his entire presidency. He is protecting more ocean at once than any other organization or person has managed before.In the 195,280 square miles of water - a total area the size of Spain, president Bush has now set up a safeguard for the marine life there, preventing excessive exploration, or any recreational fishing. According to this article, these are area's which scientists have identified as "biologically and geologically rich." This is a major accomplishment, and may very well go down in history as one of president Bush's greatest accomplishments.
However, this is just about the only environmentally friendly choice the Bush administration has ever decided to make. In a list of his 7 most deadly environmental sins, a few of the listed items were: not reducing greenhouse gasses, signing off on offshore drilling, and failing to protect many endangered species.
So, why this sudden change of heart? Especially since part of Bush's track record is to be unmerciful towards the species that are dying off, if those were the ones he could actually see, what made him suddenly express interest in these creatures that are many miles away from him, buried deep under the ocean. Well, one can only speculate, but it seems plausible that he would understand the public's dissatisfaction with the work he has done on the environment, and, in an attempt to make up for it, and not seem like he was leaving office as a total failure, he decided to go out with a bang.
This was certainly a terrific accomplishment, but George W. Bush's motives for this random act of nobility have yet to be explained.
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