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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Krowbar who wrote (136482)4/8/2001 11:21:39 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Unless the treaty deals with the pollution from the developing countries in Asia, the treaty is not going to improve the air much. The more accurate way to look at pollution is through pollution emitted in relation to economic activity. China emits half as much pollution as the US in total, yet per unit GDP emits 7 times as much as the US. China's GDP is only 1 trillion dollars. At the rate China is growing, it'll easily surpass current US emissions next decade. All one has to do is throw in the other Asian tigers, Mexico, etc. and you have a treaty that's basically ineffective. The water pollution over there is another major problem.

I'm not against steps to clean up the air but this treaty does nothing but transfer goods production that are under more environmental supervision to countries that have no supervision whatsover. They need to go back and create a real measure towards cleaning up the environment.
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