3) The Kyoto Protocol is a perfect example of the kind of governmental
failure peculiar to the UN: the "let's stick it to America" syndrome. That
body is fundamentally incapable of reaching conclusions that do not strike
at American interests. It's done so time and time again. It should be
completely unsurprising that the US rejects so many of its actions.

It's not "let's stick it to America".  It just that if you seriously want to
restrict harmful emissions it means putting an extra cost on businesses and
maybe in some cases shutting some down.  Of course companies are going to
oppose this as their only interest is profits.  The tobacco industry has
tried for years to dispute any evidence that their product causes harm,
because it's in their interest.

I don't know enough about the Kyoto Protocol to comment on whether it was a
good idea or not, but even if you dispute global warming, the Earth's
resources are running out and unless world wide legislation is brought in to
force countries and companies to be more 'green' we are going to have a
global Easter Island.  I saw some statistic once, I have no idea how true
this is, but it was something like if everyone on the planet consumed
resources in same manner as an average European, the world would run out of
all resources in 3 months.  If the same was applied to the average American
then the world would run out in 2 weeks.

The western decadent lifestyle needs to change, whether we like it or not.






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