American Idiots in Bali Blocking Targets in Bali. the world has had enough of America?

Question

Wrong! About The Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan Terrorism is on the rise, Wrong or Lying to us about Iran, Wrong about 9-11 Intelligence & still wont or cannot find Osama Bin Laden, Wrong About Vietnam 3m dead for a war they had no business starting, Cluster Bombs, Land Mines, Slavery, Wrong about China, About their Economy now in recession, Katrina, Now Wrong about Climate Change, Bush Delegation Blocking any targets to reduce carbon emissions. the world have had enough of American Stupidity, arrogance &Ignorance?

Answer 1

I understand what you're saying but President Bush is so out of touch with the rest of the world and has so little support amongst Americans that neither he, nor his Administration, area true reflection of US citizens.

I should imagine that to the great annoyance of many of the above answers, the US has now done a U-turn and agreed a deal aimed at addressing the issue of climate change.

I don't know that the world has had enough of America per se , certainly in respect of it's approach to climate change this seems to be the general feeling as witnessed at the Bali Conference when the American delegation and speakers were booed and jeered.

Many powerful business leaders in the US are now pushing the government to take action, their profits have been adversely affected and the US economy is performing badly in comparison to countries that have adopted measures to tackle climate change.

Australia has now ratified Kyoto leaving the US as the only major country in the world not to have done so (they have signed it but not ratified it). Next year there will be a presidential election, George W Buish can't stand for a third term so there will be a new president, all the candidates in the running so far have either declared outright or intimated that they will ratify Kyoto and allign the US more closely with the rest of the world in respect of climate change.

Overwhelmingly, the US public want the government to take action. Prior to the Gleneagles G8 summit (a major part of which was aimed at addressing climate change) 94% of respondents in a poll said the US should limit greenhouse gas emissions and 86% said President Bush should take action to ensure this happens http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btenvironmentra/79.php?nid=&id=&pnt=79

At the end of the day, Bush's popularity amongst American citizens is the lowest of any President since Nixon and Watergate, he was elected on a minority, and the Democrats have complete domination of Capitol Hill. He'll be gone in a year and maybe then, the US can return to being run like a democracy where the actions of the government reflect the will of the majority.

Answer 2

A better question would be, "Why are so many European countries not blocking progress at the Bali climate conference?" The answer has nothing to do with whether American leaders really believe Al Gore is right or wrong. The U.S. has only 4 and 1/2 percent of the world's population, but it uses 25% of the world's oil output. The U.S. is addicted to cheap oil. In Europe, gas costs the equivalent of $7 to $8 per gallon, and the result is that the people there have much better public transportation than we do and they drive smaller cars. Nobody there really suffers because of the price of gas. The U.S. has cheapest gas prices of any non oil exporting nation, but people still complain about pain at the pump when the price goes up a few cents, because they want to be able keep driving their gas guzzeling SUVs, with no sacrafice. Oil is a limited resource. Over half of the world's supply may already be used up. - But many Americans would rather keep using it as fast as possible, than save some for the next generation. Meanwhile we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on the military, in part to keep the cheap supply of oil coming in. It is rare to see a problem, the solution to which help solves so many other problems. Cutting down on the use of oil in the U.S. would- - Save some oil for the next generation. - Reduce our dependence on oil imports - with all the problems that causes. - Help the global warming problem. - Stimulate business growth in industries that produce clean and efficient technologies.

Answer 3

We Americans will continue to reduce our emissions as we always have. Our power plants and vehicles will continue to become more efficient as the technology evolves and becomes practical. We are developing new solar, wind and hydrogen technologies that you and the rest of the world will benefit from just as you always have. These things take time, but they will happen as they become feasible. Putting a timetable on developing technologies is rather meaningless if it cannot be done. We can agree to try, like some other countries did in the Kyoto agreement, but how many actually succeeded? Not many.

Sometimes the world conflicts that we get caught up in have been helpful and sometimes they have been a mistake, but at least we try. Time will tell if the current conflicts are beneficial or not. Most of the worlds intelligence agencies were in agreement about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that it was not a good idea for Saddam to be in possession of them. Sometimes I wish that we would just stay home and take care of our own business and let the rest of the world deal with their own problems, without our assistance. It would save our citizens a lot of grief. Our brothers and sisters would not have to die or be wounded to support your causes and we would save a lot of money. To me though, it would be like standing by and watching your little brother or sister being attacked by a group of thugs. I just couldn't accept that. Some of the conflicts we get into, appear to be selfish to other countries, like you think we are in Iraq for oil, but imagine what would happen if Saddam had taken Kuwait and then maybe Saudi Arabia, or if Europe had been taken over by the Nazis, or if terror training camps continued unabated in Afghanistan.

Slavery was happening long before America was discovered and land mines were first used in China and then improved upon in the first world war by the Germans.

I’m sorry you are so obsessed with your hatred of America. It must be a dreadful life.

Answer 4

You have not asked a question. Yahoo Answers is a forum for asking questions and receiving answers. Is that too difficult for you to understand?
The Bali conference is just about political gesturing, not a serious attempt to deal with any environmental issues.
A delegation of climate scientists who do not consider the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis to be correct were refused permission to attend the conference, proving that this is just an anti-western/capitalist propaganda exercise.
China, the worlds largest producer of carbon emissions, is free to build hundreds of coal fired power stations in the next few years, while America, one of the worlds cleanest producers of energy, is expected to cut back to a degree that will disable its economy - This is the real agenda of the extreme left.

Edited to add comment. If you look at the asker's profile, and look at the list of 'questions' he has asked previously, you will see that they are all the same, hate filled rants against America. The guy is obsessed and needs to move on

Answer 5

Where's the question?

Why aren't these climate conscious people in Bali holding a teleconference rather than adding to their carbon footprint by using planes, rental cars and all the other things involved in travel. Why? Because they want a free vacation in Bali. Nothing will get done but they will all have a great time and lots of face time on their local television. This is a political move in every sense of the word. Clean your own house.

Answer 6

Are you more concerned about global warming or with insulting our American cousins? If you think somebody else is mistaken, is the best way to deal with it (a) shout at them or (b) talk to them and listen what they got to say.

All you have managed to do is turn a part of the Global warming section into who is better Europe or America, how is that going to help. I sure there is a forum for that somewhere else. Some Americans your never going to convince never mind what the evidence, but American policy is changing. It used to be that they seemed not to believe in global warming at all, then they did not believe that it was carbon that was doing it. now their government policy seems to be I think, yes its carbon and lets all get together and look for a technical fix.
So their policy is changing, we can't fix climate change without them, lets hope their policy continues to change. But in the mean time keep talking.

Answer 7

Guess what. You don't know everything! 90 % of every thing you stated is based on pure speculation. The other 10% on partial facts. I am proud to be an American and would not like to live anywhere else. This is probable not an answer you were wanting, but then again, you really didn't ask a question.

Answer 8

One shouldn't blame all Americans, remember its governments that make these decisions, just like the UK, and they are not always the right ones or in the best interest of the population at large. After all Tony BLiar got us into wars that we did not want saying that there were WMD in Iraq when anyone with an ounce of intelligence would know it was nothing of the sort, more about the oil. And how many soldiers have we lost because of that man, too many that what. And our country is heading for a recession as we are tailgating America in our economic policies. And slavery was as much our fault as America, never forget that, we should be eternally shamed because of it. Nothing is ever as cut and dried as this.

Though the American people on here should wonder at over 50 million Americans who have no health insurance and that many black people are still treated as second class citizens. Not a place i would want to live or bring kids up.

Answer 9

The idiots are the ones who want us to get on with that ridiculous Kyoto crap. I'm sure you haven't read it, but if you did, you would find out that of the 174 countries to sign it, 137 of them have no requirements to meet other than monitor and report their levels of emissions. China and India, 2nd and 4th largest polluters respectively, are among those. All it does is create a worldwide market for this stupid idea of carbon credits and create a worldwide welfare system.

Answer 10

This question is not a question. It's a statement. THE BEST ANSWER FOR THIS IS: "Whatever", "What do you think?", "yeah well I don't care."

and for the record terrorism is not on the rise at least not in the U.S. and stop generalizing. Not all Americans are dumb? Not all Europeans are smart. You're just being self-righteous.