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Originally Posted by queenfan
. I believe the United States has done as much as it can do with current technology and attitudes. The UN and other organizations need to spend less time bashing America and more time getting China, Russia, and Indonesia to start cleaning up their industries. Until you develop a global solution to greenhouse hases one country could reduce all it wanted to but another country's emissions would fill that void. If people just paid a bit more attention to the world around them, rather than their insular lives, then everyone would be better off for so many reasons.
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Do you really believe the US has done as much as it can do to reduce greenhouse gases? I mean really? I was recently reminded of a campaign promise made in 1992 - to make CAFE 40 mpg by the year 2000. Well, know it is 2007 and we are still at 27.5 mpg. This while Europe is looking at going to 50 mpg (give or take) for 2010. Europe is also phasing out incandescent bulbs over the next 8 years - only California has made some steps in this direction. People in Europe cause roughly 1/2 the CO2 output per person as we do in the US - and you really think we are doing all that we can?