Bush Rejects Action Against Global Warming

News and Opinion for Democrats Against Bush -- Part II

Bush Rejects Action Against Global Warming

"At home you say Kyoto is unfair because it doesn't include developing countries and in negotiations you say it's unfair to ask developing countries to take targets. The message is inconsistent but the strategy is consistent — for more delay." -- Elliot Diringer, director of international strategies for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, as quoted in the New York Times.

Los Angeles Times

OPINION EDITORIAL
Global Warming Creates Rift Over North-South Waters

Elliot Diringer; Malik Amin Aslam
Elliot Diringer is director of international strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Malik Amin Aslam is executive director of ENVORK, a research organization based in Islamabad, Pakistan

July 13, 2001

This article has been reprinted on the website for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change at-- http://www.pewclimate.org/press_room/opinion_editorials/rift_waters.cfm

Opening words--

The diplomatic uproar over U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol has played largely as a drama between Europe and the United States. Yet there's a deeper worry: deteriorating prospects for ever enlisting the rest of the world, in particular developing nations, in the fight against global warming.

President Bush contends that any climate agreement binding the U.S. but not developing countries like China and India is unfair.

It is true that annual greenhouse gas emissions from developing nations will soon rival those of the industrialized nations. But the president's notion of fairness obscures physical and geopolitical realities that are far more complex. ...

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