To the editor:

Whether George Bush realizes it or not, there is a huge market opportunity for technology that can address the problem of sudden induced climate change.

Bush is still in the 20th century if he really believes it would cost America more to address climate change now than to keep plodding along the course the fossil fuel industry wants us to stay on. Having secured control of the White House and the Congress (by buying their way in) the fossil fuel industry is assuming essentially the same role as the captain of the Titanic did in another era.

Just the ongoing cost for the war in Iraq and for providing remedies for the 2005 hurricanes alone will eventually exceed the cost America would need to spend to join with the more progressive nations of the world who already realize global warming is a global disaster in progress that must be corrected now with local and internationally coordinated efforts at all costs.

The United States should take the high ground immediately, and abandon its crusades in the Middle East or it will face a new lineup of enemies in future decades that will drain our economy far more than the war in Iraq has. The U.S. must come to the realization that Bush is just another self-centered Napoleon type who sees himself as Alexander the Great off on a grand crusade.

Les Blevins,

Lawrence