2006-09-28 03:22:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
US leaders beleive that it will set back the industries here, and it is true, it would. Almost every industry will have to go through an extremely expensive emission reducing overhaul. Many industries do not have the resources to do that, and would just die off.
In retrospect, I ask leaders, what happens when 90% of species on the planet die off, the existing shores are under water from the melting polar ice caps, and the air we breathe has become literal poison. What is the higher cost?
2006-09-28 03:33:06 · answer #1 · answered by shawn_b_c 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Kyoto is a sham. Global warming, well thats another issue. With Kyoto though, with most of the world not in it, including china and india and all of Africa etc etc, it would only serve to increase costs and make a new market for trading "credits",. It is already creating one scam after another, with no real results at all. We dont need another international agreement that is so un realistic that it cant be done.
What do you suggest in concrete steps that the US govt could take? We are still a free country.
2006-09-28 03:31:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because Kyoto doesn't address the biggest problem of carbon emissions from developing nations with skyrocketing industrialization like China & India. Those will be the most important ones to control (biggest populations and highly polluting technology, unlike the US and Europe which have already been cleaning up their industries for years) The expense will be enormous, so we must be sure not to overlook the biggest contributors to this global problem. We don't have tens of billions to just throw away.
2006-09-28 03:34:58 · answer #3 · answered by C-Man 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
US fears it will hurt its industry, which has plant and machinery needing complete overhaul if US wishes to achieve the emission norms prescribed by the Kyoto protocol costing trillions of Dollars. This will be a set back to Industry.
2006-09-28 03:28:28 · answer #4 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The USA is doing more to combat global warming than any other nation...
Kyoto is not the kind of international agreement that is in the best interest of the USA...
The USA will not be dictated to by insignificant pipsqueek nations.
2006-09-28 04:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's very simple. The US government and US manufacturing interests are concerned that action on the accords will hurt business. That's it in a nutshell.
As o those that say "make Russia and China go first", if we all sit around waiting for the other country to be responsible we will eventually find ourselves left with a situation none of us can help.
2006-09-28 03:27:49 · answer #6 · answered by toff 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because Kyoto has an agenda that has more to do with business than environment.
2006-09-28 03:31:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
People don't realize that the US has the most strict environmental regulations in the world. Just because we don't attend a conference doesn't mean the US isn't active in global warming.
2006-09-28 03:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by Captain Trips 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because the Bush administration is ignorant about the impact of global warming. I still can't believe are denial over the fact, saying it doesn't exist.
2006-09-28 03:30:10 · answer #9 · answered by rachee_gal 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because Kyoto is a joke, When Russia and China have to also reduce emissions get back to us. Till then, I have to gas up the hummer.
2006-09-28 03:24:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋