US president George Bush signs an Earth pledge with his wife Barbara during the UN-sponsored Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Photograph: J David Ake/AFP via Getty Images
“These issues know no ideology, no political boundaries. It’s not a liberal or a conservative thing we’re talking about here today,” the Republican presidential candidate George HW Bush told a crowd at a campaign stop in Michigan in 1988. He was talking about climate change.
“As the nations of the world grow, they burn increasing amounts of fossil fuels and that gives off carbon dioxide and thus can contribute to an increase in temperatures in the atmosphere,” he explained.
“Those who think we’re powerless to do anything about this greenhouse effect are forgetting about the White House effect.
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