Heading off a 'Coal War' with China
Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson
06/14/06
In 1972, while toasting Premier Zhou En-Lai during the landmark visit to China, President Nixon asked, 'What legacy shall we leave our children? Are they destined to die for the hatreds which have plagued the old world, or are they destined to live because we had the vision to build a new world?' Despite a disgraced presidency, Nixon was credited with melting that aspect of the Cold War. Today, China and the United States have the Coal War. President Bush could salvage a portion of his legacy by ending it. We are not fighting each other for the resource. Instead, we burn it up in our parallel universes and toast the planet like no one else. The United States currently spews out the most global warming emissions in an endless drive to satisfy the highest level of materialism on earth...
http://tinyurl.com/kp776
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Derrick Z. Jackson
06/14/06
In 1972, while toasting Premier Zhou En-Lai during the landmark visit to China, President Nixon asked, 'What legacy shall we leave our children? Are they destined to die for the hatreds which have plagued the old world, or are they destined to live because we had the vision to build a new world?' Despite a disgraced presidency, Nixon was credited with melting that aspect of the Cold War. Today, China and the United States have the Coal War. President Bush could salvage a portion of his legacy by ending it. We are not fighting each other for the resource. Instead, we burn it up in our parallel universes and toast the planet like no one else. The United States currently spews out the most global warming emissions in an endless drive to satisfy the highest level of materialism on earth...
http://tinyurl.com/kp776
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 15. Jun, 15:32
