(Kyoto) So is the world a better place after the G8 summit... (Bush's inane hubris w/Merkel)

[dEMOK]

Source:

So is the world a better place after the G8 summit? The answer might surprise you

George Bush's usual attempts at stalling any significant action over climate change in Heiligendamm were weakened by the Blair-Merkel-Sarkozy united front. Geoffrey Lean and Raymond Whitaker report
Published: 10 June 2007



When George Bush first met Angela Merkel, shortly after she became the Chancellor of Germany 18 months ago, he thought he had finally found a friend from "Old Europe".

Believing - like British ministers at the time - that the right-wing former East German would be far less interested in the environment than the red-green government she had toppled - he (Bush) patronisingly suggested that they could forget the Kyoto protocol.

"Mr President, you are mistaken," Mrs Merkel announced, drawing herself up to her full 5ft 8in. "I am one of those responsible for the protocol." And she told him how, as her country's environment minister, she had chaired the meeting that had made the crucial breakthrough on the road to Kyoto, and then led its negotiating team when the treaty was agreed.<snip>

Read more: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2640317.ece

[Eurobabe]

1. I can't wait until this pathetic useless piece of garbage is out of office

and we get some real leadership in the White House. Everything that came out of his mouth at this summit was a bald-faced lie and stalling tactic, because presidentin' is a hard job and he's just plum tuckered out about now.

:eyes:

[dEMOK]

3. It's "Hard Work"...

...constantly standing up for the idiocy of the PNAC buffoons who installed him to power, and drive his policy (& being Cheney's puppet).

A wiser man would have replaced his advisor's (beginning with Dick) long ago, or resigned long ago.

Cheney/Bush is not only an abject embarrassment to what America used to stand for -- this administration seems to thrive on pissing the entire world off.

"National Security President???" :puke: :puke: :puke:

[bleever]

2. "Old Europe" seems to have a spring in its step.

K&R.

America should be booming on the basis of newly developed technologies, and instead we're pouring resources into defending the electric buggy whip.

[dEMOK]

4. Could not have been said better... n/t

[Eurobabe]

5. Old Europe is light years ahead of the US

Since living here my eyes have been wide open. The transportation, the way the people care about the environment, so many little things add up.

And what is the average American orgasmic about? Paris Hilton's jail sentence. How fucked up!

[razzleberry]

6. Europe has done what, exactly?

here is their carbon-trading-system, in action.

http://www.climatecorp.com/pool.htm

0.27 Euro per ton.

[Eurobabe]

7. Suggest you come over and look firsthand

we're way ahead of the US, you got trains? No oil? The US is totally fucked.