as world celebrates Kyoto america won't be there - our shame

[donsu]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-david11feb11,0,3954320.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

Snubbing Kyoto: Our Monumental Shame

Next Wednesday, in the enormous glass-paneled European Union Parliament building in Brussels, hundreds of men and women will gather to mark the start of a new era. A similar celebration will be held in Toronto, another in Casablanca and others in Tokyo, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Auckland and Mexico City, among other places.

In each of these cities, people will be celebrating an unprecedented international treaty that's going into effect that day. It is the product of eight years of work and it has brought 141 countries together. It represents exactly the kind of broad global undertaking that idealists all over the world have been striving for since the end of World War II: a massive, worldwide plan to address a terribly pressing problem confronting the entire planet.

The treaty is the Kyoto Protocol, a collective response to the greatest security crisis in the world — global warming.

But one country will not be celebrating. The United States. Even though almost all European countries are on board, and even though Russia is on board and even though China is on board, the United States, in an act of supreme irresponsibility, is standing on the platform watching the train leave the station. (The only other industrialized nations that have failed to join the protocol are Monaco and Australia.)
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[karynnj]

1. Will any American environmentalist be there, even

if our government isn't? It's painfully sad that we are not there officially, but I hope we have at least some presence to let the world know that the people of the US are divided (probably 50/50.)