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EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty
An anonymous submitter sends: "Yahoo! News is reporting that all 15 member states of the European Union have just ratified the Kyoto treaty to cut greenhouse emissions by 8% over the next ten years (the US agreed to 7%.)"
Then...
Global warming will be delayed by 6 years!
Obviously the US should adopt this treaty right away!
Seriously, Kyoto is fatally flawed. It does not have much effect on global warming other than delyaing it a few years, and that itself is dependent on all of the assumptions above. Furthermore, it does not put controls on the most populous nations in the world, which are rapidly increasing their emissions as their economy improves!
Kyoto is nothing more than another European inspired attempt at hobbling the United States and improving European competitive position. Europe, because of its much greater population density, needs less fuel than the US. Furthermore, its citizens already drive in tiny cars (due to extortionate fuel taxes and other laws) and already suffer a much higher traffic death rate per mile.
The only good weather is bad weather.
Don't be so easily fooled.
The Kyoto Treaty is a wasteful and expensive set of shackles that the US simply doesn't need. We already have the ability to regulate our production of pollutants and the countries that complain about us being the "biggest producer" of greenhouse gases are CERTAINLY not complaining about using the fruits of American labor and thinking in their own countries.
Developing nations pollute the most because it's not cost-effective for their primitive equipment to be run at levels conducive to pollution reduction. They'd ideally like us to fund everything they do, suck America bone dry and then complain about how there wasn't enough.
Watch and wait for 8 years and see how many countries are saddling themselves with millions of dollars in archaic and restrictive pollution control measures while the US has already switched over to alternate technologies.
WE ARE AMERICA AND WE DO NOT CARE WHAT THE NATIONALISTIC AND UNREALISTIC EUROTRASH CALLS US
My first thought is, great. We all love the environment, after all.
But a reduction in emissions in Europe will most likely mean fewer appliances, including computers. And we all know that Europe is an important Linux stronghold. This is going to hurt Linux's market share quite a bit, I'm afraid.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Yep, you Americans get the government your bosses pay for. Forget the treaty for a moment and reform the campaign finance system that means you get such callow, brain dead politicians that they would sell your country and its future for a few bucks.
By the way, if you are one of those right wing morons who thinks global warming isn't real, or worse, doesn't matter, go ahead and mod me down. Because I have got a brain I've posted enough intelligent contributions to have karma to burn!
Just because we're not joining up with the European Union(who keeps making it obvious they fucking hate us)
If you could pull your doublethinking head out of your ass, you might look around and start to wonder *why* most of the rest of the world hates us.
Off topic from Kyoto, but look at some of our other fucked up policies.
At the recent UN childrens summit, America threatened to refuse to sign any declaration that contained even oblique references to condoms and abortion.
This is in regards to adolescent pregnancy and AIDS. Who were the countries on our side in this? Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and The Vatican.
Who were against us (or more accurately for freedom) on this? The rest of the world.
This is one reason people fucking hate the US and rightly so. We claim to be free and anti terror, yet we push policies that only terrorists agree with.
I am a patriotic American.
If you don't question our fucked up policies and our illegally elected president, then you are not.