The treaty (or at least a modified version of it) was ratified this week by
178 countries, not too absurd by my reckoning.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Fobare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Hiyas! :)
>
> Absurd: Ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable.
>
> By that standard, the 1997 Kyoto protocol was indeed absurd.
>
> In the U.S., Clinton would not even submit the treaty to the Senate for
> ratification. Kyoto's most prominent U.S. backer, Al Gore, studiously
> avoided any mention of Kyoto during his campaign for president. Not a
> single EU signatory actually ratified Kyoto, even though the Kyoto accord
> was largely the result of EU-based enviros.
>
> And all of this could be and *was* predicted by many political observers
at
> the birth of the Kyoto agreement. Without commenting the contents of
Kyoto,
> any treaty this unsuccessful could only be called absurd.
>
> Certainly, one cannot say that George Bush "pulled out" of Kyoto. The U.S.
> was never *in* Kyoto. Bush simply commented upon the obvious.
>
> Dave Fobare
>
> At 07:46 PM 7/25/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >Why absurd?
> >
> >This week, every country in the world - I will repeat that - EVERY
country
> >apart from the US signed a new environment treaty, that combined with the
> >refusal to get involved with the Germ Warfare agreement because of
> >"commercial interests" is giving Bush an extremely poor image worldwide.
> >
> >I won't even start on the son of star wars, lets just hope that the UK
> >government refuses to let our country be used for it.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dave Fobare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:18 PM
> >Subject: Re: Hiyas! :)
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >Have you folks seen that Bush has pulled out of yet another
agreement?
> > > >First Kyoto and now one that would ban Germ Warfare.
> > > >http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/25/germ.treaty/index.html
> > >
> > > Actually, the Senate shut the door on Kyoto with a 95-0 vote in 1997,
> >after
> > > which Clinton refused to even submit the absurd accord for formal
> >ratification.
> > >
> > > Dave Fobare
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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