RFK Jr. To Montreal Delegates - Forget The United States

Delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference need not waste time trying to bring the U.S. onside in current discussions on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged yesterday.

"I don't think the Bush administration is going to move on anything," he said from White Plains, N.Y., where he helps run the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University. "They're so tied in with the oil and coal industry, they're still arguing global warming is a hoax. It's like the Flat Earth Society."

Kennedy won't be attending the conference at the Palais des congres but will be in Montreal next week to speak at Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount as part of a lecture series honouring the late Montreal lawyer Mark Feifer. Despite a strong presence at the conference, the 11th meeting of the signatories of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, U.S. non-governmental organizations are limited in what they can achieve there, Kennedy said. "Unfortunately, our government has played nothing but a negative role in this debate, and our role is really back home trying to shame our government into doing something about the greatest moral crisis of our time," he said.

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"If we want to do what polluters urge us to do, which is treat the planet as if it were a business in liquidation and convert our natural resources to cash as quickly as possible and have a few years of pollution-based prosperity, we can do that," Kennedy said.

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http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=71ef9432-ad5f-4912-8952-78fdeb5bd3b9&k=15891&p=2

"It's like the flat earth society." I love it :-)

but is he wrong? I don't think so.