I ran across this great cartoon today and it reminded me of a debate I recently had in a community forum for my small town. I am pretty much the ONLY person in this town who is concerned about the climate crisis. I asked a few of the other members, who were claiming that global warming is an elaborate hoax if they could give me one single solitary reason why we should not plan for the worst case scenario and clean up our environmental act anyway. The best they could come up with is that other countries are trying to get the US to accept Kyoto to make us relinquish our sovereignty. Uh….yeah….sounds like a good reason to let the earth go down in flames.
Here’s what makes me mad: Bill Clinton signed the Kyoto Treaty in 1998 and the Senate still has not ratified it. Why not?