Re: India News: Global warming: a real and imminent threat

Foxtrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Economic Democracy) wrote:
> 
> >South Asian countries, especially peninsular India and the island
> >countries of Southeast Asia, will face the worst troubles from
> >increasing ocean levels by the 2080s.
> >
> >This and other such likely scenarios caused by global warming were
> >described and discussed by David King, the British government's chief
> >scientific advisor, at a seminar here Saturday.
> >
> >The seminar, on the theme "Global warming: the need for progress
> >beyond Kyoto", was attended by R.K Pachauri, director general of The
> >Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Michael Arthur, the British
> >high commissioner to India.
> 
> Of course countries like India, China and Mexico LOVE the 
> Kyoto Treaty--they're exempt from it! 
> 
> Kyoto is nothing but a destroyer of jobs in America. That's 
> why it was voted down 95-0 in a non-binding Senate vote. 
> 
> >King began his talk on worldwide climate changes by citing the
> >examples of the receding snow-cap on Mount Kilimanjaro and the recent
> >heat wave in Europe which killed 45,000 people as clear manifestations
> >of global warming.
> 
> Most people agree there is some global warming--because 
> we're coming off of an ice age. Man isn't to blame. 
> 
> >He quoted the example of the U.S., which emitted 21 tonnes of carbon
> >dioxide per person per year in 2000 and compared it to India's figure,
> >which was 1.5 tonnes.
> 
> Wooohooo! We're number one, we're number one! I think 
> I'll take my gas hog Chevy on an unnecessary drive to 
> celebrate. Heh heh


Gee we wonder where the stereotype of the "Ugly American"
who doesn't give a damn about anything and jokes about the
mess he creates all over the world, comes from?

Maybe you'd like to give out your home address so any
third world person can find you, and don't confuse
those of us who are trying to reverse US policy, with the
likes of you who cheerlead it? Luckily, most people in the
third world know that most Americans mean well and don't
confuse us with the ugly policies of Washington. People
like Foxtrot don't help though..they only encourage more
of the other billions in the world to pray for a complete
collapse of the USA, which I for one don't want to see..but
which Foxtrot's actions and attitude (if they succeed) will
turn into the only way for the world to survive... Hence
we must not let those arrogant attitudes succeed.

No, third worler's are not under Foxtrot's bed ready to git 'em..no,
that's not to worry about. Instead, what boggles the mind is
how Foxtrot will be able to look at the children
and grandchildren of future generations in the eye, without
shame, for no lifting a finger to stop these disasters,
and then joking to cheerlead them..

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