An Inconvenient Truth

[kandrathe]

The Kyoto treaty was defeated 95-0 in the US senate. I believe this was largely because of the exemption of the developing nations.

I think it was because it would have driven our country into a huge recession or depression which would have taken a decade to recover from. Sometimes environmental zealots don't care what effects their environmental protections have on other systems, Kyoto was one of those. It was a good treaty for the environment, and a bad treaty for the world. If you are fighting a civil war or watching your family starve you aren't caring much about your co2 emissions.

It's not like we are not passing stricter environmental legislation. Coupled with rippple effects of higher gas prices, the US will likely meet the 2012 Kyoto goals. Still, India and China are becoming the economic engines of the world as well -- they need to be involved in protecting the planet or Kyoto will a pile of dog excrement.