So maybe it isn’t such a big deal — what’s a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide by a mere 5.2% of 1990 levels by 2011? Notwithstanding, it is actually a greater reduction compared to the pollutants currently, except that the US responsible for 36% of pollutant gases refuses to sign on. However, Russia’s 17% of the world’s pollution aids the industrial nations to reach the 55% usage of gases in order that the protocol be approved and viable. Further good news is that US corporations working in these countries must comply. It is unlikely that this will force them to come home. There’s still a buck to be made regardless.

Yet what about the perception that the US truly doesn’t give a damn about world opinion? — and its paranoia over “permission slips” — even when it comes to mild enforcement to check global warming. Why is it so damaging for the US to take offense when the little guys gang up on the bully in the schoolyard — is it really so threatening for us to display good will among nations trying to moderate the poisoning of the good earth?

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