Sintiéndose aislado por toda la comunidad internacional no era suficiente, tuvo que ser en la tarde del viernes el ex presidente Bill Clinton quien pusiera el dedo en la llaga, diciendo que los desacuerdos no pueden parar negociaciones, al referirse al momento en que el negociador de Estados Unidos salió de la conferencia de Montréal que está preparando el futuro del Protocolo de Kioto, después del 2012. Comenta el New York Times:
MONTREAL, Saturday, Dec. 10 - The United States dropped its opposition early Saturday morning to nonbinding talks on addressing global warming after a few words were adjusted in the text of statements that, 24 hours earlier, prompted a top American official to walk out on negotiations...
... "If you can't agree on a target, agree on a set of projects so everyone has something to do when they get up in the morning," he said.
In a comment clearly directed at the Bush administration, he declared to waves of applause that just as the United States had taken a precautionary approach in its fight against terrorism, "there is no more important place in the world to apply the principle of precaution than the area of climate change."
"I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future," Mr. Clinton said. "We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and we know we have an alternative that will lead us to greater prosperity."
Clinton, el viejo lobo de mar lo logró de nuevo. Estados Unidos tiene mucho que ganar si se adhiere al consenso internacional. No por nada muchos de los mecanismos del Protocolo de Kioto, como los bonos de carbono, fueron propuestos por los mismos americanos. Creo que Clinton, no dudo que se prepare a suceder a Kofi Annan como Secretario General de Naciones Unidas. Vale decir que a la delegación de su país le aguó la fiesta...
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