Bush and the world

[MonkeyK]

Originally posted by: busmaster11

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: busmaster11

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: busmaster11

Originally posted by: Helenihi
Kyoto didn't go far enough? I guess you're right. It was an utterly pointless piece of legislation that does approximately nothing to actually lower temperatures while setting unrealistic limits and doesn't do anything about up and coming developing nations like China and India.

Rather stupid piece of legislation. Bush's killing of it made it possible for some new (and useful and/or realistic) treaty to be fashioned. Or for the US just to decide how to reduce co2 on its own (like by building more nuke plants. In my dreams, i know).

Whats useful? Pollution credits? Just another way this regime fits snugly into the back pockets of the energy co's and other polluters...

Actually trading of pollution credits works quite well. The clean air act was based on that.

Works quite well for bush, I'm sure.

The spirit of the clean air act is to clean the air. This bucks the system by maximizing every ounce of total pollution allowable under the system for some, and a fancy little credit for others. Essentially we're paying companies to obey the law. Excellent spin work.

It is a system that drasticly reduced pollution. There is nothing to spin about the system.

Compared to nothing at all? I'm sure. But again, in case you didn't get the jist the first time, this defeats the spirit of such legislation.

Uh, didn't the credits exist before Bush? The system is not being bucked, it is the system.