The Kyoto agreement isn't going to work unless we get the USA, Australia and China on board. Time and again we hear that America is refusing to cut emissions because it will "harm their economy" and the same with Australia. China is in a slightly different position as they're a developing country but the scale of their emissions is still frightening.
We can't keep pumping greenhouse gases into the air and leave future generations to pick up the bill. America and Australia have just got to grow up as nations, it's as though we Europeans are the parents, prepared to behave responsibly and try to find solutions when the children, America and Australia just keep throwing their toys out of the pram! These countries have got to make a start, introducing measures so that their populations become accustomed to a way of life which doesn't give them everything they want -large cars, unlimited and cheap fuel and a throwaway lifestyle -all the time. What do other people think?

Sure, Saffron, I can appreciate what you are saying. Australia apart, it is about time the world's hegemony acts up to their responsibilites and takes stock of the ever-growing problem at hand, firstly by conforming to a general rule of minimising pollutants (come on, SUVs are sooo like 80s). Indeed, the EU has put its eurocent where its mouth is and supported the Kyoto protocol. And big up to Russia as well.
However, I would no longer consider China a developing country, because their ever-increasing economic and political capabilities have helped them mark their significant spot back on the world map.
Frankly, I think the Kyoto pact is as splendid as the creation of the UN, sliced bread and the European Coal and Steel Community of the 1950s (which later became our modernised EU system). The Kyoto pact demands backing for it to work, like any international organisation. So it has managed to scrape 55% of membership of the world's polluters. Yet, the US still holds out.
Gee thanks Mr.Bush, that's yet another fine mess you've led us into...

America is run by Jewish money and the people with the power will never look any further than their bank balances. Sadly.