US fails in bid to kill off Kyoto process

[lovuian]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=594502

US fails in bid to kill off Kyoto process
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
19 December 2004


Governments from around the world yesterday narrowly succeeded in keeping the international bid to combat catastrophic global warming alive, in the face of determined attempts by the re-elected Bush administration to kill it off.

Top negotiators described the effort - at a special UN conference in Buenos Aires - as like hanging on to a cliff face by their "fingernails", as the United States and oil-producing countries threw rock after rock to try to dislodge them.

More than 36 hours after the conference was supposed to have ended - following two all-night negotiating sessions, and while workmen were physically dismantling the facilities around them - delegates finally agreed on a series of compromises that avoided complete breakdown and kept some life in the negotiations.

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This is a humiliating moment for the Bush administration and a Ray of hope for the world!!! :bounce:

[freeplessinseattle]

1. Yes! I am so glad to hear that other countries are standing strong and

are determined to prevent the "superpower" from completely destroying the world.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. American Axis of Evil defeated by world, a ray of light in the darkness

I hope they can keep it up to humilate American Exis of Evil.

[Gregorian]

3. The problem with the Bush administration is that

you can't kill the truth.

[Gloria]

4. Doesn't the US do anything POSITIVE anymore??? Is it now

only hostility and selfishness???

[LynnTheDem]

5. bush FAILS. Again. bush ALWAYS fails. At everything.

And sometimes, THANK GOD!

But with the MAJORITY of bush supporters thinking bush SUPPORTS Kyoto, watch bush do another of his very many FLIP-FLOPS and embrace the Kyoto treaty.

bush never met a hypocrisy he didn't like.

[jazzjunkysue]

6. One for mother earth

[MasonJar]

7. Since the US has made it quite clear that the States will not parti-

cipate in the Kyoto Treaty, why were they even allowed in to disrupt the rest of the world doing good deeds?

[NYC]

8. I don't want it, so you can't have it, either.

That seems to be the attitude. Despicable.

[lovuian]

9. Kick

:kick:

[NuttyFluffers]

10. cool, i as an american encourage their defiance.

just because our gov't went crazy doesn't mean the rest of the world must suffer. let's encourage the rest of the world to ignore us diplomatically.

if there's a way to write to these delegates and praise them for their defiance i would. it's time for the rest of the world to disconnect and fix the world by circumventing us.