Environmentalism! Has rapidly spread throughout the world, with terms like global warming and greenhouse gas emissions becoming part of our everyday vocabulary. Finally, the world has caught up with environmental issues. The Kyoto Protocol, which was ratified in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, has become a major global issue. There are different views of Kyoto, mainly due to lack of knowledge regarding how people perceive how it would affect their day-to-day lives, and how such a change could have such a significant impact on the environment. People feel that Kyoto is unreachable, unsustainable and as good of a gesture it is to solve global issues, the feel it is unrealistic. They also feel that due to there being no restriction on developing nations like India and China, it is unfair towards developed nations. China is expected to exceed the United States in emissions released into the environment by the year 2009. (Levent) These people are misguided in their ways, as they do not know that......
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