Climate Change

[selil]

Bio-Diesel from corn is fairly expensive, but you can also make it from grass. Just plain grass clippings. The largest crop in North America is thrown away every weekend. Those grass clippings, the garbage in land fills, and the grass lands all are renewable, natural, energy sources.

I will now invoke the name of an author who should have marct rushing through the door. Jared Diamond has written a book called "Collapse" that discusses in detail the mechanisms and issues with environment that cause civilizations to collapse upon themselves. We're not talking about end of the world, just end of civilization as we know it. Denying the issues does not make them go away. There is a long history of people destroying their environment and then failing to be able to survive.

I don't happen to like the Kyoto Protocol either. And, yes I've read it front to back with much of a headache. The exclusion of China and India from tarriffs was a nail in the coffin for me. You either want to fix the emissions problem or you want to help (economic credits) developing countries with growth. You shouldn't mix the two in a treaty that would likely cause more conflict in the future.