>One of our erstwhile members here keeps bashing the US for not subscribing to the Kyoto accord.
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Yep, it's the UN and the One World gang. I believe we are doing much better these days as far as pollution (think Pittsburg in the early 20th century vx today). Sure we are consuming a lot of resources, but I don't imagine it will be too much longer before our alternative fuels start kicking in. There are a lot of promising technologies out there just over the horizon.

As for Kyoto, from what I've read, we don't need it. We can do better ourselves.