Sunday, December 11, 2005
Global Warming Humiliation For Bush.
Shortly after I posted "If It Looks Like A Duck, Quacks Like A Duck, Walks Like A Duck Then It's.......A Bush" yesterday, it was announced that agreement had been reached with over 180 nations in Montreal to develop measures to combat climate change, despite the Americans walking out muttering about ducks.
In the process, the delegates to the climate summit in Montreal dealt a humiliating blow to President George Bush's five-year attempt to destroy the Kyoto Protocol. The United States, which tried to sabotage the meeting at the last minute by walking out of the negotiations, was forced to join the agreement after failing to persuade a single nation to join it.
It has indeed been thought-provoking to watch some of the most desperately poor nations on earth show willingness to tackle the enormous challenges of reversing global warming, while the richest and most polluting nation on the planet, America, has sought to scuttle the whole process.
Of course it should be recognized that not the whole of the US take the view of George Bush and his administration. Many Americans and many states have gone their own way in tackling pollution, ignoring the views of their President, and they should be applauded for showing responsibility, good sense and, of course, lack of greed and self-interest, qualities sadly lacking in the White House.
And undoubtedly the intervention of Bill Clinton was timely, effective and deadly. What an indictment of the incumbent President, when it takes his predecessor to come in and do his duty for him.
In the process, the delegates to the climate summit in Montreal dealt a humiliating blow to President George Bush's five-year attempt to destroy the Kyoto Protocol. The United States, which tried to sabotage the meeting at the last minute by walking out of the negotiations, was forced to join the agreement after failing to persuade a single nation to join it.
It has indeed been thought-provoking to watch some of the most desperately poor nations on earth show willingness to tackle the enormous challenges of reversing global warming, while the richest and most polluting nation on the planet, America, has sought to scuttle the whole process.
Of course it should be recognized that not the whole of the US take the view of George Bush and his administration. Many Americans and many states have gone their own way in tackling pollution, ignoring the views of their President, and they should be applauded for showing responsibility, good sense and, of course, lack of greed and self-interest, qualities sadly lacking in the White House.
And undoubtedly the intervention of Bill Clinton was timely, effective and deadly. What an indictment of the incumbent President, when it takes his predecessor to come in and do his duty for him.
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Of course, Sarkasmo, and I have sympathy for all the decent American people who feel as you do.
I do try to point out in my posts that I am not anti-American as such, just anti-him and his cohorts and anti-what they are doing to the US and the world.
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I do try to point out in my posts that I am not anti-American as such, just anti-him and his cohorts and anti-what they are doing to the US and the world.
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