U.S. President Bush sets aside Kyoto Treaty on global warming

Caving in to right-wing nuts who believe protecting the environment is 
a  socialist plot (and we agree with them that it needs to be protected 
thanks to their private  property induced stupidity), in June President 
George Bush scuttled the global  Kyoto Treaty agreed on in Japan in 
March, 1997. Japan has now said it will not  sign if the United $tates 
does not, while European imperialist leaders have  taken a hard line 
against Bush for scuttling the treaty.

The United $tates is responsible for 25% of global warming. Yet, it is 
now  complaining about developing countries again, because under the 
Kyoto Treaty  those countries receive more chances to grow their total 
contribution to  global warming, while always staying at a much lower per 
capita pollution  level than the United $tates. China and India with 
over a billion people each  are the subjects of the imperialist 
finger-pointing. Bush is seeking to  overturn the treaty agreement on Third 
World countries to force all countries  to decrease their damaging 
industrial activity, even if those countries are  desperately poor.

Bush specifically ordered that his administration conduct another look 
at the  science behind global warming, since the results did not turn 
out the way he  wanted. After years and years of studies of the subject, 
Bush ordered another  study. When his Republican nerd Don Ritter is 
asked for the details, he says  he wants to change the subject from the 
causes of global warming to the  subject of the effects of rising 
temperatures--a neutral sounding sort of  thing except that that too has 
already been studied. Meanwhile, the National  Academy of Sciences published 
yet again that rising global temperatures arise  because of the burning 
of gas and coal and other humyn activities. Bush's  action goes to show 
that the agenda of science production is in fact  political, just as 
Mao taught during the Cultural Revolution.

Bush used the energy crisis seen in California to act to defend 
carbon-based  power plant property-owners. Under capitalism, property-owners 
who own  polluting property always resist the loss or expensive 
regulation of their  assets -- unless of course their competitors are hurt more 
than they are by the  regulation. Under socialism, major assets like 
power plants will be publicly  owned and the public will not have to 
wonder who is paying off whom to scuttle  environmental protection.
To build the movement for environmental protection, we must split the  
imperialists and increase proletarian pressure. Right now Bush feels 
strong  enough to evade proletarian pressure on the environment. That is 
what we must  change.

Note: Financial Times 7June2001, p. 1.