Kyoto Protocol Day!

L
et us welcome with joyous cheer the application of the Kyoto Protocol. It is such a small step, lowering just a tenth of pollution, but it is a huge political step. To get even Russia to ratify it was something that took years, and even President Bush, with his ties to the oil business, refuses to sign the Kyoto Treaty.

That is not to say that Bush is misguided in his vision where everyone owns a car. Everyone should be allowed to own a car, but I will add a codicil: They should not need or want to drive it.

For all our talk about the danger of global warming, we should also talk about the fact that our oil supply will most likely run out. Unless you have an authentic vision for one hundred years into the future, when our black gold dries up, you will not be helping either the environment or the transportation system. This is where I believe President Bush most fail.

Remember, to understand where the fossil fuel came from in the first place requires that you understand the nature of evolution, that you know the Earth is older than five-thousand years, that you believe the earth is a large round rock that orbits the sun. By holding all these knowledge into one mind, you begin to comprehend the world's smallness and its limitations.

Long before human beings showed up, before animals were able to get onto lands, there were the plants. These photosynthesizing organisms took the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere and made it breathable for animals. Once there were oxygen, the animals could come onto lands knowing that they would not suffocate. Before that, however, one of those plants that used the carbon dioxide was the peat bogs. They made the stuff that would become our fossil fuels after millions of years of being underground and subject to the inner earth's mechanisms and heat.

That is why it is a non-renewable resource. I wish I didn't have to call myself an environmentalist, since it makes me sound like a building-bombing activist. Let's not forget myself. It is a happy day. A city in Japan is famous. And even companies in the U.S.A. with interests abroad must conform, if the U.S. will not.