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Joseph Knollenberg: on a day when we are all trying to be green, I found an article in today's paper that disturbed my festive mood. It…

On the recordMarch 17, 1998
on a day when we are all trying to be green, I found an article in today's paper that disturbed my festive mood. It seems the UN's Global Climate envoy was in Washington yesterday bad-mouthing the United States Congress because we are asking the questions that President Clinton is refusing to ask about the Global Climate Treaty agreed to in Kyoto. He said the U.S. should perhaps get more in touch with the rest of the world and that this Congress is acting as if the rest of the world does not exist. Now the President may want to blindly follow the UN and their global climate folies, but I and many others are not ready to send our jobs overseas and our economy into the tank because the UN says we should. And if this treaty is so great, then how come China, India, and Mexico are not willing to commit to emissions reductions? On a day when I hope to be green, I am blue.
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Joseph Knollenberg
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about the UN's Global Climate Treaty and its implications for the U.S. economy.

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