Re: OFF TOPIC - The IOC sucks.
In regards to the Kyoto treaty:
The biggest problem today in North America is that most people don't care about global warming, or the enviroment. Smog in Canada and the US is getting worse all the time - so what do people do? They buy the latest big *** SUV, punching out 10mpg. Makes sense doesn't it? Why bother to work on reducing costs with alternative fuels? Encouraging mass transit? Unfortunately Mr.Bush is in the Whitehouse, so it'll be some time before anything is seriously done.
In Europe and Japan, they've had to develop sophisticated recyling techniques, pollution controls for a long time now. They are way ahead of us. Just because we still have our natural enviroments, the majority thinks that everything is still alright - when it's not.
I'm sure lots of people have seen it first hand. I live in Toronto and have watched the smog and traffic get worse each year. So what do they do? They start cutting mass transit budgets. The urban sprawl that's happening outside the city is disgusting. These new neighbourhoods with they're big houses that have 3-4 cars in every driveway. They build these huge housing developments and then force people into their cars by not building any neighborhood shopping nearby.
Nobody cares. They just shrug their shoulders and pursue the almighty dollar. Do anything to get ahead.
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