PRESIDENT Bush is backing a “son of Star Wars”. But can he be persuaded to
adopt a “son of Kyoto”? That’s the question on everyone’s lips in Bonn as they
argue over the Kyoto Protocol. And it could well dominate the G8 meeting in
Genoa next week as well.
Whether the Kyoto Protocol survives or not, global warming will not go away.
That means getting to grips with what Bush’s father signed up for at the Climate
Change Convention in Rio nine years ago—stabilising greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere below “dangerous” levels. But who should decide what counts as…
