In a message dated 4/6/07 8:36:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For the first time in nearly two decades of reviewing research on global warming, the main international group studying climate change has found that heat-trapping emissions from industry and other activities are already influencing weather patterns and ecology in ways both harmful and beneficial. Assuming this is true for a moment, we, in the United States, could stop running our cars, stop generating electricity and shut down all of our industries that pollute and probably wouldn't have much effect in reversing this trend because if you have ever traveled out side of the US to countries like China , India or many other third world countries, you'll find their pollution levels are far worse than ours. These countries have no interest in using higher costing technologies to reduce their own pollution levels. They are in the market for cheap energy and high productivity. Their governments probably don't give a damn about their air quality and the health of their people because they also are over populated. I was in India in '96 and the pollution levels in Delhi were horrendous. Go to El Paso and look at the difference between El Paso and Juarez Mexico, just across the river, it's like night and day. I know people that go to China and they tell me how awful pollution is there in all of the major cities. The United States and Europe alone can't stop the emission of green house gases even if we shut down our economies entirely. And the moment we try to impose our "values" on other countries that do pollute without any restraint, then we are seen as the big bad boogie men suppressing the economic development of poor people. So, if indeed mankind is causing Global Warming, which I'm not convinced it is at this point, we are all going to have to make the same efforts, together. As far as I can tell there is no country in the world that does as much to be productive and reduce pollution per capita than the United States. Screwing in fluorescent light bulbs and driving Hybrids may make you feel good about yourself, but it ain't doing much when it comes to offsetting what many more other countries are doing or not doing to fix the problem. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
