At least someone gets it: EU ratifies Kyoto
The treaty requires industrialized nations to cut their emissions by an average of 5 percent over the period 2008-2012.
But the United States, the world's largest polluter, shunned the treaty shortly after President Bush took office last year, arguing it would harm the US economy. The pact would have required the United States, which accounted for 36 percent of the industrialized world's greenhouse gas emissions in 1990, to trim emissions by 7 percent from 1990 levels.
But the Bush administration has instead announced policy changes likely to push them up by 30 percent by 2010
I am loath to discourage anyone from writing Bush telling him to ratify Kyoto and (if you're a U.S. voter) that you won't vote for anyone in 2004 who won't... but I think his doing so is about as likely as, say, his converting to Islam. I would remind everyone, though, that choices we make every day affect CO2 emissions. It's not simply someone else's problem.
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