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BUJUMBURA, Burundi - If we need any more proof that life is unfair, it is that subsistence villagers here in Africa will pay with their lives for our refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

When we think of climate change, we tend to focus on Alaskan villages or New Orleans hurricanes. But the people who will suffer the worst will be those living in countries like this, even though they don't contribute at all to global warming.

My win-a-trip journey with a student and teacher has taken us to Burundi, which the World Bank's latest report shows to be the poorest country in the world. People in Burundi have an annual average income of $100, nearly one child in five dies before the age of 5, and life expectancy is 45.

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Former Bush administration Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman predicts the United States will respond to global climate change by enacting mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industries but that no action will occur before the 2008 elections.

Ms. Whitman, who spoke yesterday at the Air & Waste Management Association's annual conference in Pittsburgh, said she favors a cap-and-trade program over an across-the-board policy limiting emissions to reign in the greenhouse gases that exacerbate climate change.

"A market-based cap-and-trade program can and will work," she said, "and the sooner we engage in that type of control, the better off we will be."

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BUJUMBURA, Burundi — If we need any more proof that life is unfair, it is that subsistence villagers here in Africa will pay with their lives for our refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

When we think of climate change, we tend to focus on Alaskan villages or New Orleans hurricanes. But the people who will suffer the worst will be those living in countries like this, even though they don’t contribute at all to global warming.

My win-a-trip journey with a student and teacher has taken us to Burundi, which the World Bank’s latest report shows to be the poorest country in the world. People in Burundi have an annual average income of $100, nearly one child in five dies before the age of five, and life expectancy is 45.

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As a proponent of renewable energy and a West Texas wind energy entrepreneur, I would like to comment on Alex Mills? June 18 column.

Mills, president of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, represents the industry that has been at the forefront of development of the modern age.

Since the discovery of oil in the mid-1800s, we have witnessed growth and prosperity unimagined by our forefathers. For that we are thankful. But it?s time to assess the results of that development and the use of those fuels on our planet and mankind.

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WHEN you watch a baby being born, after a difficult pregnancy, it is so painful and bloody for the mother it is always hard to tell the truth and say, "Gosh, that baby is really ugly." But that's how I feel about the energy legislation passed (and not passed) by the Senate last week.

The whole Senate energy effort only reinforced my feelings that we're in a green

bubble - a festival of hot air by the news media, corporate America and presidential candidates about green this and green that. But when it comes to actually doing something hard to bring about a green revolution at scale - and if you don't have scale on this, you have nothing - we wimp out. Climate change is not a hoax. The hoax is that we are really doing something about it.

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