The uncompromising Monbiot...with some interesting recent historical nuggets..... Excerpt and link below
Jeanne URL to article: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/17/5859/ Published on Monday, December 17, 2007 by The Guardian/UK We’ve Been Suckered Again by the US. So Far the Bali Deal Is Worse than Kyoto America will keep on wrecking climate talks as long as those with vested interests in oil and gas fund its political system by George Monbiot “After 11 days of negotiations, governments have come up with a compromise deal that could even lead to emission increases. The highly compromised political deal is largely attributable to the position of the United States, which was heavily influenced by fossil fuel and automobile industry interests. The failure to reach agreement led to the talks spilling over into an all-night session.” These are extracts from a press release by Friends of the Earth. So what? Well it was published on December 11 - I mean to say, December 11 1997. The US had just put a wrecking ball through the Kyoto protocol. George Bush was innocent; he was busy executing prisoners in Texas. Its climate negotiators were led by Albert Arnold Gore. The European Union had asked for greenhouse gas cuts of 15% by 2010. Gore’s team drove them down to 5.2% by 2012. Then the Americans did something worse: they destroyed the whole agreement. ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
