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[MARIELA FLORES]

in 1997 more than 180 countries started a process with the kyoto protocol in the japanise city, this paper propoust add up to a total cut in greenhouse-gas emissions of at least 5% from 1990 levels in the commitment period 2008-2012.
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement, negotiated that has proplems �cause some countries , like unites states, don�t acept the proyect.
USA is one of the biggest polluters in the world.

is important to salve the enviroment

[asterix]

Good luck with that.
China, India, USA have not signed it (over a third of the world's population) and in any case the science behind it is bad.

[ltp-008]

Kyoto protocol is a treaty which participant countries would reduce their greenhuse -gas emmisions,but many countries which had participated in the talk have failed signing on it.

The United States said that the treaty will affect its economy growth,so they don't sign it.The people 's Republic of China is now main source of greenhouse -gas,many experts said that china will not take the treaty serously even they sign it.

EU.and Japan both signed it no matter many countries don't want to sign it.

Although many scientists are concerned about the emmisions of greenhouse -gas,some scientists still suspect that the greenhouse-gas is related with the globe warming.

so what would be done to the globe warming?Maybe it is just the climate circle of the mother Earth,during some period,the Earth will become warm a little,then she will restore normal.

[asterix]

Trees are the lungs of the earth.
The main reason they are cut down is greed.
If we keep cutting down trees at the present rate there will be none left in 100 years.
If you could cut a piece out of your lungs and sell it, would you keep doing it until you could not breathe?
I don't think so.

[Bob S.]

What if you could regenerate your lungs?

Trees cut down and processed into lumber forever locks up the CO2 it gathered up, while trees that burn down release its CO2 back into the atmosphere. So if you keep replanting trees for each you cut down, you can pull more greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The clearcutting of rainforests is far more harmful to the environment than modern logging industries that use selective cutting and reforesting.
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[asterix]

Unfortunately, many trees that are cut down are replaced with some other crop, or a subdivision.
Even if trees are replaced, they are replaced with tiny saplings which take many years to have the same effect as the mature trees.
We are cutting down trees at an unsustainable rate.
We will die from lack of oxygen before our lungs grow back.
It will not be a pleasant death.