Posted on 12/17/2007 5:00:01 AM PST by NRG1973
BALI, Indonesia -- In a hushed conference hall, as envoys from 186 nations looked on, the world's lone superpower took a tongue-lashing from its most powerless, nation after poor nation assailing the U.S. ''no'' on the document at hand. Then the delegate from Papua New Guinea leaned into his microphone.
''We seek your leadership,'' Kevin Conrad told the Americans. ''But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.''
The U.N. climate conference exploded with applause, the U.S. delegation backed down, and the way was cleared Saturday for adoption of the ''Bali Roadmap,'' after a dramatic half-hour that set the stage for a grinding two years of climate talks to come.
''This is the beginning, not the end,'' U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who made a plea here for action, later told The Associated Press. ''We will have to engage in more complex, long and difficult negotiations.''
The Bali conference, a contentious two-week affair that lapsed over into an extra day, was charged with launching negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. That pact requires 37 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by a relatively modest 5 percent on average in the next five years.
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This is the weakest quote in the article. Doesn't Conrad realize that by not ratigying Kyoto, we are providing leadership? If he doesn't like the direction we are hoing, its a free world and he can do whatever he wants.
Leadership = MONEY
My response would have been "Well %$#& you!" before walking away laughing.
We should lead. Conrad is right, but not about the direction. We should be the first to get out of the UN.
Only one answer !Stop the UN moonbat’s tyrany
These talks will accomplish nothing, will change nothing, because in the end this nation will not sacrifice it's growth and prosperity for that of other nations based on a plan that is grossly unfair and intended, in the end, to accomplish the Socialist plan of wealth redistribution. That aside, the schism between the pro and anti human caused GW theorys grows wider by the day and will provide ample ammunition for us to use against the nut bag gloom and doomers.
has any one seen an estimate of the life style impacts of a these kind of reductions? I’m not looking for one of those silly carbon offset calculaters. I’d like to see something along the lines of this is how much we would have to reduce and this is what that would mean to our life styles. How much would we have to reduce the size of our houses, what would the typical automobile look like, how many fewer flights would be allowed?
Kevin Conrad is executive director for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, an. intergovernmental initiative which seeks to better align market incentives ...
BURN THE UNBELIEVERS! KILL THE HERETICS!"?
“we seek your leadership. but if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. please get out of the way.”
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Wake up ignorant voters. When will we start to test?
Rather impertinent, coming from someone who is no doubt going to be looking for heavy US funding, to support this socialist boondoggle. Sort of like a penniless son, blaming and haranguing his parents for money, imho. If this really were about the purported dangers of "climate change," there would be no exceptions or allowances for any part of the world.
I would wear those boos as a badge of honor...
Hey, if the guy from the country with zero industry wants to make a symbolic statement and ratify Kyoto, go right ahead, his country is free to remain a zero industry country for as long as it wants.
Those of us who actually have economies can feel equally free to differ.
Done.
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