Originally published August 6 2005
America falls short of the rest of the world's environmental standards
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
While every other nation institutes measures in an effort to save the environment, America falls short of expectations.
For too long, the Bush administration has led people to believe that this isn't happening, and, if it was, the remedies would only hurt our economy.
The administration's inaction on global warming ignores the findings of scientists throughout the world, and could imperil both our nation and the rest of the globe.
The Senate also recently missed an opportunity to take real steps to reduce global warming, although it did finally acknowledge for the first time that human activity is to blame for climate change and we, as a nation, should do something about it.
Last week, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee finally held a hearing on climate change and its economic effects -- one hopes it will lead to progress.
If the government invested as heavily in alternative energy efforts as it does in the old fossil fuel industries, enormous savings could be achieved in both greenhouse gas emissions and economic costs to recover from global warming.
It is bad enough that the United States, the world's largest contributor to climate change, refuses to acknowledge this growing problem, but earlier this month at the Group of 8 summit, we pushed our fellow major industrial nations to water down their commitment to reducing greenhouse gases.
At the Sundance Summit in Salt Lake City this month, mayors from 46 cities agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Seeing that Congress is slow to act, nearly 40 states have developed their own climate plans, and 18 states and the District of Columbia now require that a portion of their electricity be generated with renewable fuels rather than fossil fuels.
Increasing temperatures could cause grapes to ripen early, lowering the quality of California's wines, and could have a drastic effect on the dairy industry, reducing milk production by as much as 20 per cent.
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