Have just created a new verb

To planetfuck - a willful disregard for environmental or other planetary concerns. This could mean implementing wars that devastate cities and landscapes and leave behind death, destruction and depleted uranium, but it could also, on a more simple scale, mean driving a V8 when a 4 cylinder ought to do. Yes, we're all guilty of it on smaller scales - leaving the car running (this is one hideously crass Japanese habit) or leaving the tap running, burning too much fuel, taking the elevator when the stairs will do, driving to the post office when it'd be easier to walk, flying off on dumbshit minibreaks to places we never knew existed and will soon forget again. It happens, but we've got to make an effort, to just clean up our own shit, just a little, everyone, we're all responsible for not passing on a complete tip to the next generation. Just a little planetary and humanitarian respect if you like.

Of course we've been planetfucked before, but never has there been a president of the USA whose only goal it seems to be. Not content with just being known forever for the Iraq debacle he is the world's best proponent of a hot dang good ole planetfuck. But, hell, this is old hat - the afternoon he took office the Kyoto accord was tossed disdainfully out the window, along with every other meticulously drawn up environmental restriction written into the constitution in the last 30 years - clean air bills that protect kids - you know, that kinda worthless crap. Bush is an oilman - well, ahem - a pseudo oilman born and raised in New England actually but he's plainly desperate for the Texan swagger and bravado and equally desperate to not be seen to be at all connected to back east, home of nasty Liberals. Well, all this playing with the planet who gives a shit stuff ain't really a joke when the world's at stake. Everybody knows we're up shit creek if we don't start doing something now, not when it's far too late. At the present climate change conference the preening Americans stormed out again, disgusted to be told they might be wrong, disgusted to think that they may be forced to make some admission of guilt on the planetfucking antics of the present administration. Only word gets around, and it took a real president - Clinton - to get worked up about Bush and say publically - to much of the world's relief - that Bush was just 'plain wrong' - and now the Americans, tail miserably between legs, are starting to see the point in all this environmental bullshit - I mean, hell, we've only got one planet right? Duh.