EU Not Feeling the Kyoto Love

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Europe's Cold Sweat over Kyoto (http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0330/p08s03-comv.html)

Bush opposed the Kyoto treaty and got ridiculed by Europe for it.

I guess now they're realizing what a mess this thing is.

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[Recyclerz]

Bush opposed the Kyoto treaty and got ridiculed by Europe for it.


At the meta level, it really wasn't ridicule for Bush (unlike other issues); it was Europe getting pissed and calling shenanigans.
The point of the Kyoto treaty was to get all the industrialized countries to share in the sacrifice of increased energy costs so that no one got an unfair advantage by using cheaper & dirtier energy sources. Since the Greens have more political juice in Western European countries than they do elsewhere, Euro- politicos wrapped their motives in a lot of lofty rhetoric about saving Mother Earth. When Bush (& Putin) told them they weren't going to participate in the communal jump off the high dive, it left the Euros to do the slow "walk of shame" (to slightly misuse Ron's term) back down the ladder.

Kyoto was flawed because China is accelerating its use of carbon based fuels way faster than we can possibly reduce ours anyway. My advice is to buy land on a hill away from the coasts, lest you start living a bad Kevin Costner movie. ;)

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This message was edited by Recyclerz on 3-30-04 @ 4:38 PM

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For numerous reasons, Kyoto ain't gonna work unless everybody joins. And you'd think with that smog cloud growing over Asia that curbing their emissions would be a major priority. 10 years from now I don't even want to think about the amount of crap China will be spewing into their air.

And let's not single out Bush here. As I am so often reminded, it was rejected 99-0 or something like that in the Senate. If Bush is catching flak for this, it's just because he's so easy to hate.

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