Why doesn't Bush participate in the Kyoto Protical?

Question

Because he wants to keep our economy strong? What good is a strong economy if you don't have a planet to use it on? It's like... duh....Hello...Earth to George......you there?

Answer 1

Don't be fooled by these responses. One above even claims that Australia is the only one complying, well Australia is not even a member of the treaty. Bush has many constituents and among one of them is carbon-based fuel industry that is the biggest polluter sending tons of pollution to the environment. Perhaps, instead of focusing on why he doesn't participate, we should focus on why he withdrew from the previous commitment made by the Clinton administration, it is clear they saw the threat of global warming. It's failure to understand that many of our problems today will have to be solved by our children tomorrow what keeps people from focusing on the real problems. Most just worry about their "today" taking tomorrow for granted; it is an egocentric and very selfish point of view. I'd rather sacrifice a little bit of the economy for a world in which my children don't have to wear gas masks or pay 100 dollars for a glass of drinking water. They (Bush and his cronies) just think we can clean up the earth when it all becomes a mess, and in a matter of seconds reverse the damage of what has taken millions of years to become an equilibrium. It is intelligent design what has created those "unintelligent minds" that oppose world conservation.

Answer 2

President Bush above anything else has shown himself to be the president that is really only there for one segment of society - the wealthy. And these "Robber Barron's" can not have their money without in one way or another "raping" the earth so they can operate at the cheapest bottom line. Strong term, but true. It's very ugly stuff and they could care less about their obligations to society or our planet.

Then they milk the evangelical base for support as well. The evangelicals don't much believe we will need our planet much longer - aka the rapture is coming, and then Jesus will snap his fingers and clean up the earth for him and his select to use after all the "evil environmentalist's" are gone.

It's a twisted and distorted world the way people condone the harm to the planet or just plain do not care. There is even a term for it; Anthropocentrism.

You are exactly right though, "what good is a strong economy if you don't have a planet to use it on." And going by the icecaps and climate change rates, we are in severe and immediate trouble in large part due to industry and the use of fossil fuels.

Answer 3

It isn't President Bush who doesn't participate; it's the United States of America that doesn't. The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty, and treaties have to be ratified by the United States Senate to be binding on the United States. The Kyoto Protocol has not been ratified by the Senate and cannot be made binding by action taken by the President alone. Just as the United States never participated in the League of Nations, even though President Woodrow Wilson was one of the principal architects of that organization, because it was never ratified by the Senate.

Answer 4

The president refuses to submit to any environmental treaty which is exempted by China and India (two of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters)

"Despite its refusal to submit the protocol to Congress for ratification, the Bush Administration has taken some actions towards mitigation of climate change. In June 2002, the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the "Climate Action Report 2002". Some observers have interpreted this report as being supportive of the protocol, although the report itself does not explicitly endorse the protocol.[citation needed] At the G-8 meeting in June 2005 administration officials expressed a desire for "practical commitments industrialized countries can meet without damaging their economies". According to those same officials, the United States is on track to fulfill its pledge to reduce its carbon intensity 18% by 2012.[38] The United States has signed the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a pact that allows those countries to set their goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions individually"

It's not as if the Kyoto protocol is the only world program designating the reduction of CO2 emissions. Do not let the narrow views of politically motivated environmental action groups allow you to believe that The US and President Bush are ignoring the global warming probem.

Answer 5

That's not the only reason. It's not like you have to comply with the environmental goals under Kyoto, you just have to give money (or trade credits) with 3rd World countries. The treaty isn't worth the paper it's written on. Not one signer (with the exception of Australia I believe) is in compliance. Of course, the treaty doesn't call for taht anyway. Read it some time. It's a joke.

Answer 6

well if you can exist without a job? i am sorry i would rather be able to feed myself and my loved ones, pay my mortgage. and i think the Kyoto Agreement is a jaded document where the penalties would be more severe for the US than other countries. I like things to be a little less lopsided when it comes to the rest of the world.... yeah i like the fact that our encomy is the best in the world...

Answer 7

Bah! Tree hugging liberal hippies!

Answer 8

the man invaded 2 countries already, it tells u something.. duh (he doesn't give a rat's *** about human life nor the planet)