Why is USA against Kyoto Protocol?

Question

And what about you? Do you agree?

Answer 1

because The USA puts business before people. US politicians are all in the pocket of big business and anybody in the states who things different have been corn fed lies

Answer 2

Because it would wreck our economy while many other countries would not have any restrictions.

Answer 3

The Kyoto Protocol had nothing to do with controlling global whining.  It had everything to do with the transfer of wealth from industrialized nations to the 3rd world countries, all at the expense of the standards of living of those industrialized nations, and would have done little to improve the living conditions in the 3rd world countries.

Those countries with the largest pollution emitting industries would have been excused from any type of control on their emissions.  Namely China and India, which burn more coal for energy than any other nation.

Technology has done the most to reduce any pollution emitted by factories.  And that technology comes from the most advanced nations, like the U. S. and Japan, and Western Europe.  If you reduce the development capabilities of those nations, how are helping control airborne pollutants?  By allowing MORE pollutants from countries such as China and India?

We (the U. S.) consume more energy that India or China, yet we put fewer pollutants in the air than either of them.  Why should we submit to the economy-busting terms of the Kyoto Protocol?

Answer 4

The vote in the US Senate was 95-0 against.

So the globe got one degree warmer in the last 100 years. What did it do the 100 years before that? Nobody knows, and the greenies don't care.

Global warming is a flimsy little theory, and the "solution" is to reduce our standard of living by 25% to 50%. God save us from the greenies.

Answer 5

Because its sanctions were mostly aimed at the US, and to be funded by the US. We'd be paying to punish ourselves, and we say h**l no.