# "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/456043>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/456043 "2008-07-10T21:00:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/456043/61 "2008-07-13T02:51:42Z")

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The US’s CO2 output is (slowly) going down…China’s is (rapidly) going up. I’m not sure that per capita is all that meaningful at this point. Besides, I am unsure if Bush knows what ‘per capita’ actually means at this point, unless someone points it out for him.

😛

-XT

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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/456043/62 "2008-07-13T03:02:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Giles]  
I thought Dubya was talking about himself personally, rather than about his country.  
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From [http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/is\_george\_bush.php](http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/is_george_bush.php)

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> … but is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.” Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in "discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream- colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/456043/63 "2008-07-14T23:39:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Capt. Ridley’s Shooting Party]  
When **InvisibleWombat** stated the only reports were originating from tabloids, I took him to mean the latter, which is incorrect. Neither The Indepedent (centre-left) nor The Telegraph (right) are tabloids.  
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I get these papers confused. After reading your email, I checked the Web sites for both papers, and you’re quite right. I shouldn’t have called them tabloids.

Interestingly, though, I still haven’t seen video of this or heard about it on any of the many major U.S. newspapers that detest George Bush. Were the two British media guys the only representatives from the media present at the time?

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