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...doing and the buying and selling of carbon dioxide?emissions allowances. Not a word about the much larger emissions problem caused by other parts of the world, especially the U.S., which among other nations declined to participate in the efforts of the Kyoto accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping the earth...
Yankee Potshots. Maziere begins his tale with an indignant account of Easter Island's sufferings in recent centuries. The island was discovered on Easter Sunday, 1722, by a Dutch admiral named Roggeveen, who was intrigued by the stone giants and observed that although some of the natives were obviously Polynesian, others had white skins and red hair. He also let his men shoot down a few indigenes after a minor misunderstanding. Subsequent Western visitors apparently felt free to kill any native on whim. In 1811, an American whaler added a touch of Yankee ingenuity. Some island girls were lured...
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