Remarks like this one are the reason people all around the globe just love Americans.
So...we should seek approval ahead of our own interests and our citizens' well-being and prosperity? Does any other country do that? No. Why then should America?
The United States has a population of 300 million - less than 5% of the world's population - yet consumes 25% of the world's oil.
If the U.S. were the world's only developed country those numbers might make sense, but it isn't, not by a long shot. American habits are simply wasteful, and yet people like you blithely assert that the size of America's demand is "irrelevant."
Our consumption is great but our productivity and what we do with that energy never gets mentioned. 300 million people use that energy to produce the greatest GDP in the world and the highest standard of living for the most number of people in the world.
If we can afford the energy and use it as we see fit, what's the big deal? What do you propose? Rationing?
No, but ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and replacing gas-guzzling SUVs with more fuel-efficient vehicles and better public transport would be a nice start.
No, the Kyoto Protocol is a complete fraud. Countries that did sign it have increased their CO2 emissions and have had to pay billions of dollars in penalties for doing so. The USA which was the target of the Kyoto Protocols has reduced its CO2 emissions, voluntarily, without the penalizing Kyoto scheme.
Not that it matters, because human industry does not change the climate.
wonderful! I almost believe it has a heart and a brain, rather than a set of republican industry-at-any-cost talking points!
stockula said
No, the Kyoto Protocol is a complete fraud. Countries that did sign it have increased their CO2 emissions and have had to pay billions of dollars in penalties for doing so. The USA which was the target of the Kyoto Protocols has reduced its CO2 emissions, voluntarily, without the penalizing Kyoto scheme.
Not that it matters, because human industry does not change the climate.
wonderful! I almost believe it has a heart and a brain, rather than a set of republican industry-at-any-cost talking points!
stockula said
No, the Kyoto Protocol is a complete fraud. Countries that did sign it have increased their CO2 emissions and have had to pay billions of dollars in penalties for doing so. The USA which was the target of the Kyoto Protocols has reduced its CO2 emissions, voluntarily, without the penalizing Kyoto scheme.
Not that it matters, because human industry does not change the climate.
wonderful! I almost believe it has a heart and a brain, rather than a set of republican industry-at-any-cost talking points!
attn_ho
Brooklyn, NY
February 2004
JUN 30, 2008 10:16 PM