Actor Robert Redford has called President Bush "ignorant" about the environment. He urged other countries to keep pressure on the US at a global climate conference next week.
Mr Redford told the German weekly magazine Stern that Mr Bush was oblivious to the extent the US squandered natural resources compared with other countries. "Bush doesn't have a clue," Mr Redford said; Mr Bush was unaware "we are all living in a global village".
The President relied too much on advisers who joined his administration from industry and military backgrounds. Climate talks start in Bonn next Monday. Delegates will discuss how to proceed after the US rejected the Kyoto agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Meanwhile, the Nicaraguan human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger (51) has accused Mr Bush of playing "Russian roulette" with the planet.
The former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger joined activists in central London in support of a Green Party fortnight of campaigning to back global warming controls.
She singled Mr Bush out for criticism over his rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, saying: "I think that Bush's policies are a Russian roulette endangering the survival of the planet.
Delayed government action to curb greenhouse gas emissions could leave Britain ungovernable, according to a report published today. The conclusions of the New Economics Foundation document coincide with the first British conference on ecological debt.