Come again??

This is just getting absurd. I suppose I don't need to state here that the rest of the world dislike America. I'm using the word dislike because "hate" is such a strong word, and there are definitely intelligent beings still trapped there, because sadly that's where the money and market is. Okay, enough intro, here's the story for today.

Instead of coding this morning, I decided to seek "inspiration" by checking slashdot. There was an interesting article on global warming and how we would reach "the point of no return" in ten years and catastrophic disaster would occur. (Link for the slashdot entry and article) Granted there is a chance that it might have been a bit over the top, but it's still a problem that needs to be acknowledge and to be seriously thinking about. And while I'm reading about people's opinion on the issue (hoping to catch a few academic to see their view on this) and then I read this gem.

For those of you who can't be bothered reading that (and I won't blame you because it's a load of crap), it's basically saying that people are only doing this to force people to side with the Kyoto Protocol to screw US over.

WTF?

Let's see: the treaty was there to stop CO2 emission, if US is as clean a country as the submitter claim to be, why should that screw US over? And you gotta love this golden comment:

Ironically, countries like US today tend to be moving away from an industrial production based economey that uses heavy environmental resources to an information based service one that tends to be more efficient. Kyoto would do allot to help dying industrial rellics lock in high prices to live a little longer, but nothing to promote such a service based economy or the environment.

Yes and that's why they outscource the heavy production side of business in Asia, because we all know so long as it's not produced in the country, it's not really the country's fault. They're still the one of biggest consumer last I checked anyway.

It's this sort of attitude that really gets me about some people in US. Wake up, there are actually more people on this planet.

A few good comments on that thread in respond to the Kyoto Protocol comment though. At least some people can think...

As for me, I'm going to try to figure out how I can do my little bit of saving the planet. Probably gonna take a long time though... but I'll manage...