06/05/07 Jolly Green Sustainably Organic Giant

The US is kind of like the Jolly Green Giant, happily nodding yes to every global warming initiative, attempting to keep the whole world happy, while in reality the majority of globe views the "green giant" as just a "dumb chump" so desperate to fit in that he'll foot the bill for everything? Globally influential groups like Oxfam are proposing that rich nations, (namely ours) pay for the bulk of global warming. Meaning, the U.S. would pay 44 percent of the annual 50 billion dollar global warming bill while the country with the second highest emissions, Japan, pays a mere 13 percent. (By the way,who gets these payments? China won't even be billed because they fall under the "developing country" status despite the fact that China will be spewing out the majority of the worlds emissions by next year. According to a Reuters's report, China simply shrugged off calls from the EU to take a more active role to reduce global warming saying they felt it was up to industrialized nations. By virtue of being the "Jolly Green Sustainably Organic Giant" maybe we aren't so "industrialized" after all and should give the old EU a shrug as well.