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A HAGUE SENSE OF UNEASE
A feeling of resignation seems to be spreading through the climate
change talks now entering their second week in The Hague,
Netherlands, as if the rest of the world has begun to concede that
efforts to curb global warming will be watered down by the U.S,
writes Bill McKibben from The Hague in Grist.  American negotiators
are looking for ways to get the Kyoto treaty on climate change
ratified in the U.S. Senate -- and that means making it as painless
as possible for the U.S. to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
Thousands of demonstrators outside the negotiating sessions are
protesting the U.S. position, and some world leaders such as the
French President Jacques Chirac have urged the U.S., which releases
about a third of the world's greenhouse gases, to take the lead on
making sharp domestic emissions cuts.  But so far the protests seem
to be falling on deaf ears. Would a watered-down Kyoto treaty be
better than no treaty at all?  Read more on the Grist Magazine
website.

read it only in Grist Magazine:  On-the-scene reporting from The
Hague -- by Bill McKibben
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/maindish/mckibben112000.stm>

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