George Monbiot, författare till Heat och journalist på brittiska The Guardian, skriver på sin blogg om Kyoto, Bali och Al Gore:
“After eleven days of negotiations, governments have come up with a compromise deal that could … even lead to emission increases. … The highly compromised political deal … is largely attributable to the position of the United States which was heavily influenced by fossil fuel and automobile industry interests. The failure to reach agreement led to the talks spilling over into an all night session …”(1)
These are extracts from a press release by Friends of the Earth. So what? Well it was published on December 11th – I mean to say, December 11th 1997. The US had just put a wrecking ball through the Kyoto Protocol. George W Bush was innocent; he was busy executing prisoners in Texas. Its climate negotiators were led by Albert Arnold Gore.
The European Union had asked for greenhouse gas cuts of 15% by 2010. Gore’s team drove them down to 5.2% by 2012. Then it did something worse: it destroyed the whole agreement.
Ett mycket läsvärt inlägg om hur Al Gore ledde ett team som totalförstörde Kyoto-protokollet. Nu hade han visserligen inte mycket till manöverutrymme, det var snarare andra intressen som styrde. Men ändå.