Crimes against the world
There is something even worse than crimes against humanity: crimes against the whole planet. And that’s what the Bush administration and their powerful friends (not just the oil companies) are guilty of. I was reading a few months ago about a NASA scientist who was asked to lie (or at least conseal) about global warming and now the same usual suspects are offering money to other scientists to shut up about what lies ahead for the planet.
America’s biggest modern crime is not Iraq or the prison in Cuba. It’s their insistence — via their president and their powerful corporations that drive this country– on turning their backs on a major threat that will have grave implications in the future generations. Talk about short-sighting… I just hope that the next US president will have the balls to go against the hand that fed his/her campaign and acknowledge the problem, short of working on a solution along with UN.
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See you in 800000 years when the Morlocks walk the earth.
I strongly believe that THERE IS the necessary technology to have large production facilities and at the same time protection of the environment. The problem is the cost. We need strong laws about that, and not wait until the situation becomes in-reversible…
Anyway, for me the first step is hybrid cars, and I will support any initiative to promote that technology
When the campaign for the elections in 2000 started I heard Bush saying very clearly when asked about the Kyoto protocol that he was not at all worried about the health of the planet, he was just worried about the economy of his country (the richest AND the most environment damaging in the world, needless to say). Back then I thought that this guy was not only the retarded one that everyone pointed out and laughed at, but also a really dangerous one (even if something like what happened in Iraq later was completely unimaginable then).
Thanks God the USA has this law that you can’t choose the same president more than twice…
Time and time again I see a strange phenomenon among many U.S. posters - they seem to have little or no empathy for their fellow man. The same types of people who reject universal healthcare (in the U.S) because of their own selfishness also seem to refuse to curb CO2 emissions for the sake of future generations… glad I live in the U.K. .
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