Ah, interesting: " we lack the technology to get from here to there."

[Even the fantasy would be a stretch. In the United States, it would take massive regulations, higher energy taxes or both. Democracies don't easily adopt painful measures in the present to avert possible future problems. Examples abound. Since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, ] and so on.....

I'm banking on the first, beam me up.... some people are getting greedy here and it's become obvious.

Yes, YES, to recycling what we can and saving fauna, but putting the blame on countries on who they are, not UN withstanding because the U.N. has not exactly abided to sooooo many things.

Anyways, no, it is not right to prey on the giants nor the weak. As usual, the truth; thankfully it's out there and it is NOT the U.S. OF A. is out there.

Ask NASA, it's with Latin countries such as Mexico, Africa... with it's de-forestation, Brazil included in that one; China... try putting China in a thing such as a Kyoto agreement. Lots of luck. Maybe that's one of the things that the 'great ones' had in mind: Reagan.

Up yours Bowser.