World: Ignore Bush!

[Moon]

To let the people at the conference in Bali who are working in good faith for a treaty
to save Earth from humans' depredations, go to the following link and sign the petition
that reads, in its entirety, "World: Please ignore Bush. He doesn't represent us."
https://www.avaaz.org/en/please_ignore_bush/5.php/?cl=42161824
We need to get the idea across in the next day or two, because every time the majority
of conferees come up with something that will work, Bush blocks it, claiming
to represent the USA. Let them know WE will abide by the treaty, regardless of Bush.

[Zeno Swijtink]

To let the people at the conference in Bali who are working in good faith for a treaty
to save Earth from humans' depredations, go to the following link and sign the petition
that reads, in its entirety, "World: Please ignore Bush. He doesn't represent us."
https://www.avaaz.org/en/please_ignore_bush/5.php/?cl=42161824
We need to get the idea across in the next day or two, because every time the majority
of conferees come up with something that will work, Bush blocks it, claiming
to represent the USA. Let them know WE will abide by the treaty, regardless of Bush.

Yes, Bush is even backtracking from earlier statements that the US would join a post Kyoto protocol if developing nations were included!


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https://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-de...ks-on-vow.html

Environmentalists: Bush Backtracks on Vow
December 11, 2007 03:27 PM ET
After years of saying U.S. involvement in a mandatory global greenhouse reduction plan is contingent upon participation by China and other developing nations, the Bush administration is now rejecting such proposals, according to environmental leaders observing Bali's climate change conference.

"The U.S. has fundamentally been talking the talk but not walking the walk," Philip Clapp, deputy managing director of the Pew Environmental Group, told reporters via teleconference this morning. "The real watershed at these talks is that developing countries, including China, have come forward and for the first time" talked about participation.

Meanwhile, rain forest nations are emerging with plans to reduce deforestation in exchange for carbon credits under a cap and trade system. "Unfortunately, the position the United States has taken is the administration can't seem to find a way to say yes to these proposals," Clapp said. Canadian environmental leader Steven Guilbeault of Equiterre called the developments a "deal maker." But insiders say things are falling apart in Bali. Clapp referred to "enormous anger in developing countries because they have come forward and done exactly what President Bush has been saying."

Senate Democrats last night rushed a letter to Yvo de Boer, secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, that sought to undercut the administration's hard-line stance in the negotiations. The letter describes congressional progress on a climate change bill and attempts at emissions reductions through the stalled energy bill, while trumpeting action at the state and local levels. The letter urges Bali participants to "take encouragement from these recent developments in our country" and possibly alludes to Democrats' optimism that the party will win the White House and thus change the tenor of future climate negotiations, ending with the line: "Change is happening now, and even bigger changes are on the horizon."

—Bret Schulte