Kyoto accord

Shortly after taking office, President Bush rejected the Kyoto accord that was negotiated by his Democratic opponent in the 2000 election, former Vice President Al Gore.

The accord emphasizes the need to develop technologies that cut emissions and capture carbon but Bush said it would cost the U.S. economy $400 billion and almost 5 million jobs while excluding China and India from its requirements.

Ok, Bush is right to worry about the costs to our economy and workforce, but we are the ones causing global warming (unless you're the idiot Senator from Oklahoma,) and we are the ones that have to solve the problem.

Millions of jobs would be lost in phasing out old technologies and forcing polluters to clean up their act? Well, those jobs could be absorbed by the development of new, cleaner, and alternative technologies, as the treaty encourages.

$400 billion lost? We already threw $300 billion in Iraq (something like $5 billion a month) and we worry about $400 billion versus saving the planet? Are you kidding me?

I do agree that China and India should be forced to reduce their emissions too, but their economies are just now starting to bloom, therefore it would really be hard for them to slow down their growth in order to reduce pollution when their citizens are finally starting to enjoy a better quality of life. In time, they'll follow suit, but how can we expect them to behave selflessly when we won't?