Still, Rifkin said that while the United States shows little sign of cutting emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise dealing with global warming, in Europe record flooding attributed to climate change has speeded up legislation aimed at promoting renewable sources of energy. The legislation is to be announced tomorrow. Nobody in America wants to hear that we may be the problem, ... that it may be our profligate lifestyle and our greed that contributed to Katrina.
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