Bush Gives President's Environmental Youth Award

This document is a video where we can see and hear the president G.W. Bush giving Youth award and delivering a speech. I find this document on youtube and I choose to study it because I found it very interesting as it is different to the other documents concerning the president and the environment. It is undeniably true that the president GW Bush is not well known for his environmental commitment and he is often criticized about this current problem but this speech is touching and comforting.

Firstly, the president GW Bush begins its speech with an allusion with the beauty of his country: the United States. He explains some environmental efforts with examples as we can't repudiate it. His idea to give youth award to children is original and his idea to reward them to their environmental efforts too. It's satisfying and motivating, and it's important to make us sensitive because they are the future generation, they are those who will act to solve the environmental problem later. It is a good initiative to reward them for what they have done.
Unfortunately, this event could be doubtful because the reasons are not clear. The president G.W. Bush doesn't appear really as a president concerned by environmental problems with his positions, he is unconvincing. The event is touching because there are children and it should be calculated in order to move people. He didn't ratify the Kyoto protocol which was an important environmental commitment. He chooses to involve his economy and to neglect the environment.

To conclude, as I've already said this document is very interesting because it gives us another vision of the American president but the issue is double, people could believe or not this "performance". Maybe he only wants to be more appreciated or he is really concerned by this problem. From my point of view it is a good initiative but it is not really concrete and not immediately effective.

Claire