Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change?

[cedric]

It would be laughable anywhere else. But, so everyone says, the Waxman-Markey bill which is likely to be passed in Congress today or tomorrow, is the best we can expect – from America.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jun/26/us-obama-climate-monbiot

[villager]

1. Yeah -- how "changey" is that?

:shrug:

[phantom power]

2. Because we are a failed state?

:shrug:

Or at least, we are in the process of failing?

[excess_3]

3. the world's leading economies need to go first,,, the US will follow

China, Europe, etc, need to lead

[Nihil]

4. Two sad (but accurate) points made in the article:

> You can judge the effectiveness of a US bill by its length:
> the shorter it is, the more potent it will be. This one is
> some 1,200 pages long, which is what happens when lobbyists
> have been at work.

> A combination of corporate money and an unregulated corporate
> media keeps America in the dark ages. This bill is the best
> we're going to get for now because the corruption of public
> life in the United States has not been addressed.

... but does anyone care? Look, another has-been "celebrity" has
snuffed it ...

[stuntcat]

5. A combination of corporate money and an unregulated corporate media keeps America in the dark ages.

scuse me, I just felt that needed repeating