{"article":{"id":8602,"heading":"Redford attacks Bush on green issues","author":"BBC","created":"2001-07-11 14:44:51","modified":"2005-08-15 00:36:22","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:36:22","article":"<p>Monday, 9 July, 2001, 18:02 GMT 19:02 UK  <br><br> Redford attacks Bush on green issues <br><br>   <br>  <br> Actor and director Robert Redford has said US President George W Bush \"doesn't have a clue\" about environmental issues.  <br>  <br> In an interview with the German weekly magazine Stern, he urged other nations to put pressure on the US at a global climate conference in Germany next week.  <br><br> The film star and environmentalist said President Bush seemed to be unaware \"we are all living in a global village\".  <br><br> \"The United States is the biggest polluter but it acts as if it were alone in the world,\" he said.  <br><br> Emissions  <br><br> Redford said he thought the president was too dependent on advisers with industry and military backgrounds.  <br><br> \"They are blind and deaf to the changes of the past 40 years,\" he told the magazine.  <br><br> UN talks on limiting emissions of \"greenhouse gases\" start in Bonn on 16 July.  <br><br> Delegates will be discussing the future for a 1997 treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, that has been rejected by the US.  <br><br>  <br>  <br> Redford's films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Out of Africa, Up Close and Personal and The Horse Whisperer.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"\"The United States is the biggest polluter but it acts as if it were alone in the world,\" he said.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/07\/rredfurd.jpg","filesize":"10.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/07\/8602.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/07\/rredfurd.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2001\/07\/rredfurd.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}