Let the Revolution Begin....

Finally, just when I could take no more of this oppressive society with all of its corruption and greed, a light shines from the darkness...

Since the Kyoto agreement that began at the Earth's summit in Rio De Janeiro and was finalised in the former capital of Japan in 1997. America has been adamant that they will not sign an agreement that would ensure that they adhere to strict guidelines involving the reduction of CO2 emissions to prevent the nationwide catastrophe known as, global warming.

The American government won't even admit that the problem exists, and if it does, it is certainly not a man-made problem.

Only the small minded 'controllers' of America are reluctant to agree to any terms despite the fact that their own scientists have proven that American industry is one of the major causes of the largest temperature changes since the last ice age. We all know that their reasons for not signing the Kyoto agreement were down to the one thing that their leaders care about....money!! They have too much to lose by agreeing to a reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions, they believe. All they care about is making the budget work for the next 4 years, there are no plans beyond that!

Their short sightedness is not able to see that as human beings we are remarkable at diversifying. If an official statement informed all the American Industries of a target to reach, you can guarantee that we will design ways around it. In the same way that if we abolished petrol cars, which at the moment terrifies most governments, we will quickly invest lots of time and money into developing new forms of transport. We will not simply stop progressing. This is what Bush and his colleagues need to realise, and I think the time has come that they will have to.

The 'light' to which I referred to at the beginning was that over 140 American cities have gone against their entrusted leader and signed up to their own Kyoto agreement. Boston is planning off-shore wind farms to replace their coal power stations, San Diego are powering their refuse trucks with methane extracted from the land fill sites, other cities are planning on supplying 10% of peak load electricity from renewables, cutting commuting in single-occupancy vehicles (don't know how they will achieve that one!), and more obvious targets, which by now you would think would already be in place; cutting smog, and banning leaded petrol.

This is People Power at its most Glorious! This is the sort of news I dream of reading, when the people stand up for their rights and take matters into their own hands. It would be nice to believe that we do live in a democracy and that voting would make these things occur but anyone can see that just doesn't happen.

It won't be long now before the Environmental Revolution finally hits the Whitehouse, and you can 'bet your bottom dollar' that anytime now, Dubya will make a speech hereby declaring his approval of the Kyoto agreement. I doubt they will admit to changing their strategy because of being under duress, they will come up with some other feasible reason why they will change their minds....either way its good for America, and its very good for the rest of the world.

This is important because when the acid rain falls, and the flooding consumes our coastlines, Dubya will be long dead, and who are we going to blame then???