There are people dying and starving because the US did not sign the Kyoto agreement. The issue here is that it's not in the US. It's mainly in Africa where the effects of the climate changes are more severe and they were just responsible for a very tiny portion of the emissions.
As George Orwell would say, all people are equal, except some people are more equal than others and I guess US citizens have more right to live than African citizens. After all they are an advanced civilization, they need to pollute for economical reasons and they don't care about other people's rights
If African people die it's their fault for not doing something.
To quote Mr Bush when he walked out of the Kyoto agreement, “Because it is not in the US economical interest and ...people of America come first"
He is entitled to his stand on the issue, and so are you, after all the price of energy will go up if people stick to the Kyoto protocol. But even so, Europe has managed to lower its gas emission by 8%, at the expense of the European consumer, that does not mind given what is at stake, while the US and its aside arrogant internal solution will lead to a 33% increase in carbon emissions alone.
So, is the electricity price is Texas more important than the melting of the polar ice caps? The price of a car in Idaho more important than the destruction of the whole planet, the floods, hurricanes, tidal waves, respiratory diseases all over the world.
Get over the economic reasons. Look at the world and realise what is happening. Karl Saigon already wrote a book 2 decades ago alerting for this, which the US chose to ignore and refused to accept Global Warming. There are still a few (idiots) that refuse it, claiming it's just a natural cycle. Thanks good they are a minority now.
I am not even going down the immigration route, as I am not sure you would get it by the sounds of your question.
Get a book, don't just watch TV, get good books on US policies and you will probably feel betrayed and start thinking by yourself rather than what your government wants you to think.
Trust me, I am European and what you express here is exactly what we don't understand about US citizens but recently I have been reading about the media in the US and how it keeps the average American uninformed and in a cocoon. After all they are big corporations and doing that is for their benefit only.
Read, read US critics of US policies. You don't even have to read the international opinion as you have excellent and informed writes in the US that are trying to warn the US people for what the international community already knows.
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Well, you don't have to feel for me I am a European Citizen and Equality is a Big thing here.
Do you know the US has the 3 highest GDP in the world (oh by the way I live in the country with the highest GDP in thw world, Luxembourg which is 50% more than the second one) but when ths figure is adjusted for innequalities the US comes almost bottom? Even Iran, Russia and China score better and the US is by far the worst western country.
Don't blame immigration or Kyoto. We also have a huge immigration probem in Europe (mainly African) and we signed Kyoto and we are still fine.
Give me fact don't just state nonsense
2007-03-01 02:43:58
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answered by Good Advice 2
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Liberal people don't care about the starving masses, they never have. They talk good game, but all the solutions they present include either American foreign aid at the expense of the taxpayer, or international government which is inferior to ours and unelected by the US citizens. Thinking people way see what appears to be a conflict where none exists because they can't conceive of such Machiavellian evil. If you doubt this examine the ethanol issue. Liberals aided by the dimwitted Bush would have us continue to grow food that would be converted to fuel even though this causes a price increase in basic food supplies that will starve millions. This is justified by them as the only way to prevent the extinction of the polar bear and other species. As if lower animals have equal or greater value as man. While it may seem that many liberal policies are at cross purposes with their stated goals that is only because the gullible buy the lie and the liberal organs of the main stream media are willing accomplices in spreading it
2007-03-01 02:14:27
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answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6
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curiously it fairly is because of the fact our greatest Minister would not have faith Kyoto would be effective, would not have faith it fairly is honest for Australia as a united states regularly run on coal (in spite of the reality that the settlement does take that into attention), would not have faith in putting objectives for carbon emissions and he claims that ratifying the settlement might fee jobs. I surely do not agree along with his selection, yet fortuitously we are having an election quickly so John Howard's reign of terror is with a bit of luck coming to an end. opposition chief Kevin Rudd is in finished help of the Kyoto Protocol.
2016-10-17 00:30:22
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answered by ? 4
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