8 Jun
2002
8 Jun
'02
10:08 a.m.
At 11:21 AM 6/8/02 -0700, you wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Joe wrote:
I was referring to George Herbert Walker Bush's failure to get the UN
Basel Convention (referenced above) ratified.
I missed something. Exactly why is it HWB's or any other American president's
job to get a UN treaty ratified????? The UN is made up of some 200+ nations and it's
blatantly unfair to blame any ONE country or person for the UN's failure to pass a
treaty. Besides, no country needs a UN treaty to pass laws to prevent the importation of
hazardius waste into it's borders. The failure to pass such laws isn't the fault
of HWB, American or the UN! So let's quite passing the buck.
"The
US is the only industrialised country to have failed to ratify the
1989 UN Basel convention which calls for a total ban on the export of
hazardous waste."
No surprise there. Of course we can't blame
good ole W. for this one, but
we can blame his stupid dad.
Why do you call him stupid? If they're willing to not only take it
but to actually BUY it then why shouldn't we sell it to them?
But at any rate, why would you object to calling either Bush stupid?
Oh I don't think they're stupid. They may be greedy, self serving and lots of
other things but not stupid.
I
find them to be completely devoid of any sense
whatsoever, as their
actions have proven.
But I digress...
Not exactly. We don't live in a dictatorship. If the American public really wanted
meaningfull recycling policies then it could be pushed through the states, Congress and/or
the courts. The real problem is that US consumers are brainwashed by Madison Avenue
advertisments that tell us that we MUST have the lastest, greatest, biggest, fastest,
flashiest (your choice here: computer, car, house, pool, vacation, etc etc etc) and the
hell with conservation, the enviroment or even simple economics. In the end, the fault
isn't the prez's policy but the realities of American culture.
Current
In any event, it's unfair to blame the
prez for this practice. It's
the fault of the local garbage companies, recyclers, surplus companies,
computer manufacturers AND the American consumer.
The President makes policy, and We The People implement it. policy is to move us closer to the Apocalypse so we can
fulfill some
moron's religious mythology.
I can agree with that.
Joe