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Hmm, let's see, I wonder how much "large-scale and irreversible climate
changes", will result from NATO's depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans?
Enough to be acceptable to Ms. Jagger, no doubt. Lobbying from
ExxonMobile? Gee, I wonder how much they lobbied Congress to support the
destruction of Serbia, so that they can build that pipeline through the
Balkans? Well, that's fine with Ms. Jagger, I guess.
She wants a nice clean environment, but only for good New World Order
Yuppies. Polluted environments to all who resist the NWO!
peacefully yours,
Nancy Hey
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> [Ooh! I'm just so-o-o mad!! After those great guys
> Bill and Tony did so much for the cause of human
> rights and all. After all, they bombed the living hell
> out of Yugoslavia, just like we told them to. Now
> that's responsive leadership!
> And they also bombed Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Colombia,
> the Bosnian Serb Republic, Afghanistan - where they're
> not nice to women, though I supported the CIA's war
> against the earlier government, which gave women full
> rights - and even managed to lob a few cruise missiles
> into Pakistan, Bulgaria and Albania.
> Wow, those guys are awesome!
> But now that dirty Bush b*stard has walked away from
> his international obligations!
> Though, to his credit, he's stepping up the war
> against Colombia and those filthy Slavic Macedonians.
> They're all pigs anyhow.
> And of course he's 'staying the course' with Iraq and
> the Middle East.
> But, dammit, George Bush the Second is giving in to
> corporate interests on the environment. I'm shocked!!!
> Me and my friends have a lot of choice beachfront
> property and one thing I DEFINITELY don't want is
> stuff like oil spills and pollution and global warming
> and bad things like that.
> I'm so bloody mad - I mean it, too - that I'm going to
> ring up Vanessa and Bono and Sting, and, like wow, am
> I going to raise some hell!]
>
>
> America the unbeautiful
> If President Bush refuses to change himself, we must
> do it for him
> Bianca Jagger
> Sunday July 22, 2001
> The Observer
> George W Bush has abdicated the leadership role
> America once enjoyed. He has walked away from his
> international obligations, tearing up international
> treaties like the Kyoto Protocol and ABM treaty,
> which, however imperfect, have helped bring peace and
> environmental protection. The least we can say is that
> he has embarked on a dangerous journey. Why?
> The answer is corporate payback. This has been the
> defining trait of President Bush's administration. His
> election was a straightforward capitalist venture for
> the energy corporations. Oil, gas, coal and nuclear
> companies are the power behind Bush; together, they
> donated more than $50 million dollars to put him in
> the White House. As soon as he was elected, it was
> payback time and Bush declared the Kyoto Protocol on
> reducing carbon-dioxide emissions dead and buried.
> The message was: 'US corporations have the right to
> pollute the entire planet. The people and the
> environment don't matter.'
> To come into force, the Kyoto Protocol needs to be
> ratified by 55 of the 180 or so nations that
> negotiated it. In addition, the countries which sign
> up must together be responsible for more than 55 per
> cent of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions. So, if
> Japan, Australia and Canada follow the US and don't
> ratify, as they are insinuating, the treaty is dead.
> Some argue that the treaty is dead anyway without the
> support of the US, by far the largest polluter.
> That is unlikely to come. Bush still questions the
> scientific evidence that links fossil-fuel emissions
> to climate change. He calls the treaty 'fatally
> flawed', 'unworkable' and claims the targets are not
> based on science. He proposes more research, even
> though 1,000 of the world's top climate scientists
> already believe we are heading for disaster.
> Is Bush aware that we face a life-threatening outcome
> if Kyoto is not ratified? If we were to follow his
> advice, we would become the only species on Earth to
> spend our last days monitoring our own extinction.
> The report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
> Climate Change (IPCC) is described as the most
> comprehensive study on the subject to date and warns
> of large-scale and irreversible climate changes, of
> devastating droughts, floods, violent storms in
> addition to the spread of cholera and malaria. Earth's
> temperature could rise by as much as 5.8 degrees C
> over the next 100 years.
> All this carries less weight with Bush than his
> obligations to giant power conglomerates and
> particularly to the corporation that donated more than
> any other to help him win the presidency, ExxonMobil
> (Esso in the UK), which gave more than a million
> dollars. It has been the leading lobbyist, calling for
> the US to abandon Kyoto, running major advertising
> campaigns condemning the protocol and denying the link
> between burning fossil fuels and global warming.
> ExxonMobil's chairman, Lee Raymond, has every reason
> to be pleased with Bush's decision to bury the
> protocol. I was present at its last shareholders
> meeting, where Raymond described the protocol as
> 'unworkable, unfair, unattractive and damaging to
> vital American interests'.
> 'Kyoto was too much too soon,' said Raymond. He
> forgets that it took five long years for the
> industrialised nations to reach agreement in December
> 1997 and set targets for reductions which different
> countries should try to reach by 2012.
> America is the largest polluter in the world with 4
> per cent of the world's population; it discharges 25
> per cent of the world's carbon dioxide. If Bush is
> success ful in sabotaging attempts to stop global
> warming, he will condemn us all to catastrophe. We do
> not have much time left.
> That is why I have joined forces with Greenpeace and
> Friends of the Earth to launch a boycott of ExxonMobil
> products. We believe that transnationals have an
> obligation to the global community on issues of social
> responsibility. ExxonMobil does not adhere to this
> philosophy; it believes that human survival may simply
> not be economic.
> Its executives need to be made to understand that
> human survival must transcend shareholder interest. I
> will continue to call on the public not to buy any
> Esso products until ExxonMobil stops its opposition to
> the Kyoto Protocol and abandons its call to open the
> Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling and
> invest in renewable energy.
> We are at a crossroads - leaders of the industrialised
> nations must ratify the Kyoto Protocol or face
> disaster. The time to act is now or we will lose the
> battle. The treaty is hanging by a thread and Mr Bush
> is playing Russian roulette with the environment. Our
> lives and the lives of our children and their children
> are at stake. We must not allow Mr Bush to hold our
> future to ransom, condemning future generations to the
> ravages of global warming.
>
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