Global Warming + Cold War = Lukewarm Reaction
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The Eskimos Inuits of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia intend to file a complaint against the U.S. for global warming:
One of the most successful lies of the anti-capitalist, anti-American one-worlders is that the U.S. is somehow "the world's worst polluter." It's actually quite the opposite: we generate something like 22% of the world's emissions, but we also create over 25% of the world's GDP, while still keeping the rest of the world (mostly) safe from tyranny. If our share of production exceeds our share of pollution, then that means we are a relatively clean nation. Go figure.
Perhaps the one-worlders would better spend their time killing two birds with one stone by turning an eye toward China, which is a truly lethal nation both in terms of pollution and real human rights abuses.
Oh, sorry, I forgot: China is expressly exempt from the Kyoto Protocol. Go figure.
More thoughts at The Phalanx.
The [Inuit Circumpolar Conference] argues that climate change is undermining Inuit hunting culture and is tantamount to human rights abuse. The ICC is hoping for a declaration that US climate policies breach the 1948 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and international laws and has asked the IACHR to recommend that the US adopt mandatory limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. The ICC said in June that it planned to file the petition, but the actual filing coincides with the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference, where 189 nations are discussing ways to fight global warming.I say bring it on. Of course, if the cause of action is "human rights abuses," then perhaps the U.S. could use this "litigation" as an opportunity to file a counterclaim against the rest of the world for unjust enrichment given all the human rights abuses we prevented by fighting, funding and winning the Cold War. How much of our greenhouse gas emissions over the past 60 years have been keeping the Inuits, and lots of other "victims" of our supposed eco-hostility, alive and free? I'd especially like to know what Russia's Inuits think of that idea.
One of the most successful lies of the anti-capitalist, anti-American one-worlders is that the U.S. is somehow "the world's worst polluter." It's actually quite the opposite: we generate something like 22% of the world's emissions, but we also create over 25% of the world's GDP, while still keeping the rest of the world (mostly) safe from tyranny. If our share of production exceeds our share of pollution, then that means we are a relatively clean nation. Go figure.
Perhaps the one-worlders would better spend their time killing two birds with one stone by turning an eye toward China, which is a truly lethal nation both in terms of pollution and real human rights abuses.
Oh, sorry, I forgot: China is expressly exempt from the Kyoto Protocol. Go figure.
More thoughts at The Phalanx.
Posted by Kip on
10 December 2005
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