na and India are exempt from compliance because of their developmental states and the actual cause and solution of global warming continues to be debated.
             The conditions of the Kyoto Protocol as it stands now are not effective preventative measures of global warming and therefore the Bush administration is correct in their decision not to accept the terms.
             The need to reduce the world's output of greenhouse gases motivated many countries to create and sign the Kyoto Protocol. Even as they signed this protocol, however, many nations had great reservations. The Kyoto Protocol required industrialized nations to make emissions reductions, which would involve economic consequences for everyone in every country involved. The goal of improving the world's environment was evaluated with the economic well being of individuals, corporations and national economies. In being evaluated the concern is whether or not the Kyoto Protocol is worth immense economic stress.
             Implementations of the emissions restrictions under the Kyoto Protocol would most likely put a further strain on our now-fragile economy. According to the Argonne National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy, the following predictions would likely occur under the Kyoto Protocol:
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