Go Green

My high school teacher brought up a good point- that every generation has an "-ism" to be scared of. Her generation was "Communism". My generation is "Terrorism". However, I'm beginning to think that the next generation's "-ism" of choice will be "Environmentalism". After Al Gore produced "An Inconvenient Truth" and brought it to the American public, its obvious that politicians' new policies and platforms must focus on the current environmental situation. I think that the US, as an obvious political leader, needs to take steps that indirectly encourage other nations to improve the environmental situation and think ahead for the future. Of course, the biggest of these steps would be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Convention on Climate change. President Bush and America in general has received mass criticism from not only Americans but other nations for its lack of participation in such a dire and exponential problem.