Last week, George W. Bush let the world know that the USA will walk away from its pledge to abide by Kyoto. Oil companies, for example, don't want to lose money just to gain cleaner air. The issue is not that the Kyoto Protocol is such a brilliant solution to the world's emissions problem. Actually, no one really thinks that. If we could successfully pull off an exercise that gave us the necessary means of dialogue, trust, information building and exchange, then we would build a process that might incrementally beat the real problem some day.
Some protesters also think in terms of process.
These people don't hit the street in April and imagine the world will be different in May. They think that the voices of citizens and workers might make their national institutions remember that they have to manage society for long-term human benefits. For more than consumer choice and investor dividends. From 1995 to 2000, he was director of research at EthicScan Canada. All Rights Reserved.