Comments on: News from the climate crisis http://themoderatevoice.com/10642/news-from-the-climate-crisis/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/10642/news-from-the-climate-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-48886 domajot Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:20:48 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/environment/news-from-the-climate-crisis/#comment-48886 We are missing the diplomacy boat, yet again. With the US reputation in the tank, we could regain some lost ground by coming through as a leader in an effort for something positive, like the global warming effort. As it is, the US seems only to speak up in a punitive role, aginst other countries. (I know there are exceptions, where the US has contibuted, but it has not led). Personally, I think a new initiative to control nuclear weaponry would be another great positive cause for the US to take up. As it is, old agreements fail to cover existing conditions. Countreies such as Israel and India are not signatories to the nuclear treaties. The US is not likely to endorse anything that would curtail its own activiies; we only want to prevent others from nuclear capabilities. But there are good ideas out there that we could address, like the 'return address' notion. The idea is to develop technologies to trace the origin of a detonated nuclear device, so that if a nationless group were to use one, the country of origin would be held responsible. We need to regain our reputation as a leader for progress toward positive ends. We are missing the diplomacy boat, yet again.
With the US reputation in the tank, we could regain some lost ground by coming through as a leader in an effort for something positive, like the global warming effort.
As it is, the US seems only to speak up in a punitive role, aginst other countries. (I know there are exceptions, where the US has contibuted, but it has not led).

Personally, I think a new initiative to control nuclear weaponry would be another great positive cause for the US to take up. As it is, old agreements fail to cover existing conditions. Countreies such as Israel and India are not signatories to the nuclear treaties. The US is not likely to endorse anything that would curtail its own activiies; we only want to prevent others from nuclear capabilities. But there are good ideas out there that we could address, like the ‘return address’ notion. The idea is to develop technologies to trace the origin of a detonated nuclear device, so that if a nationless group were to use one, the country of origin would be held responsible.

We need to regain our reputation as a leader for progress toward positive ends.

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