Blocking Climate Protection?
In recent official statements, Washington has indicated it might be looking for a compromise during negotiations in Bali for a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. But sources say the White House is discreetly searching for partners in Beijing and Dehli to derail the prospects for any binding agreements to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.
In the run-up to the Bali Climate Conference that opened Monday, the administration of US President George W. Bush established contact with representatives of the Chinese and Indian governments in an attempt to curb progress on climate protection initiatives…
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What concerns me with the US attempts to bring the other 2 largest emission contributors together in an alliance to stop protection initiatives, is that all 3 will be able to blame the other 2. And essentially, nothing will be done.
Big corporations will make more money I suppose.
And some more extinctions will occur.
And the little ball floating in space that we reply on for our survival will get a little dirtier.
The question that remains is, at what point do those extinctions that no one seems to worry about include the human species? Bet we care then.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
What concerns me with the US attempts to bring the other 2 largest emission contributors together in an alliance to stop protection initiatives, is that all 3 will be able to blame the other 2. And essentially, nothing will be done.
Big corporations will make more money I suppose.
And some more extinctions will occur.
And the little ball floating in space that we reply on for our survival will get a little dirtier.
The question that remains is, at what point do those extinctions that no one seems to worry about include the human species? Bet we care then.