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 12/10/05

US Climate Diplomacy Delusional

Despite the country's failure to ratify and adopt the Kyoto Accords, and twenty years of unimproved fuel efficiency from American vehicles, Adam Ereli, a U.S. State Department spokesman claimed that "If you want to talk about global consciousness, I'd say there's one country that is focused on action, that is focused on dialogue, that is focused on cooperation, and that is focused on helping the developing world, and that's the United States." (According to OECD statistics, the U.S. ranking for aid to developing countries is among the lowest when national income is factored.)

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/international/americas/10climate.html?ei=50941342772

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