The former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore, who won in a commentary in the top of Asia earlier this month in Bali, Indonesia and the United States is the worst country in question global warming. United States of America is the only industrialized nation now refuses to join the Kyoto summit on carbon dioxide emissions of moderation. President Bush refuses to sign the treaty for fear that the industry may slow domestic growth.
In fact, to reduce the use of contemporary forms of energy will not help the majority of global warming. It’s like giving pills to treat cancer pain. Y ’superficial and not eradicate the problem.
The heat is generated and produces the global temperature increase comes mainly from the energy they consume from fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal. Coal, for the moment, is the cheapest energy source among the three. There is also a bit of clean coal that provides more energy and less carbon dioxide. But the proportion is too early to talk.
Bio fuel or too much alcohol is another clean and friendly source of energy. But once more the amount we use to produce gasoline and other fuels are limited mixed. There will be a great help in reducing the overall heat.
The Kyoto summit is not just a solution too late and too little for pain. It also creates a bad side effect or rather, more pain. Limiting consumption growth is good if not the retention time and the same consumption of our basic energy needs. Could we have recession and social unrest as a result.
So far, we cornered in a win or lose. We pushed oil to a maximum of $ 99 per barrel and warmed the world. Also separate industry leader in publishing in Kyoto. We can console ourselves with some success to reduce energy consumption. Meanwhile, the ice floes in both north and south poles continue to melt.
The solution is to divert around the world, energy technology, etc in the long attracted the attention of the world to use clean energy and safe, that is. wind, water and sunlight. China may have made good use of hydropower. Europe was the right way for the development of renewable energy cheaper than wind. Japan goes very well with sunlight.
Another source of cheap and clean energy is nuclear energy. Nuclear is cheap as all the natural energy of wind and water. All do not emit carbon dioxide to pollute and warm the planet.
But we are doing all this and continued sporadically. No mass production of solar cells with an economic scale for a price that justifies the application of trade. There is concern Chernobyl, to the point that come together to make a better and safer nuclear power reactor universal.
Personally I do not think that the U.S. must join the winners and losers Kyoto Convention. But it is imperative that the United States as a world leader on many fronts, to lead a win-win solution to solve the global warming crisis. We really have to do it with a concerted effort worldwide to better our environment.