Bin Laden Adds Climate Change to List of Grievances Against U.S.

Quarter 2

Article 5

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/world/middleeast/30binladen.html

Ny Times

Miller Chapter 20

The area covered is global.

Osama Bin Ladin, the leader of Al Queda , blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollarbin. Bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy in a message that he said was directed to “the whole world.” He called for a worldwide boycott of American goods and the dollar. He faulted the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which sought to curb global warming by restricting greenhouse gas emissions

Bin Laden is correct in the aspect that developed countries are largely to blame for not halting climate change because we do produce and consume the most.'

Kyoto Protocol- an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012.