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Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force
Cally writes "The controversial Kyoto Treaty regulating CO2 emissions finally comes into force today. The BBC has several stories and backgrounders, and notes that international pressure is now mounting on the USA to take action as well, as the scientific consensus is well established. A key question is whether the US economy will benefit relative the rest of the world, with some arguing that new technologies such as clean power generation and energy efficient appliances will provide an economic boost."
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Someone PLEASE mod this one up!!!
AMEN!!!
Yes, but the US still should not be held responsible for this - it is not America's fault that their emissions are so high - it's because all of the jet aeroplanes flying from China to India go through US airspace. Also, it's due largely to sabotage by the British - they have been secretly coming to America for hundreds of years, and the population is now massive, so of course they create more CO2.
So, the real solution should not be for America to join the Kyoto protocol, it should be for the US to start shooting down those pesky indo-chinese planes, and to force mass emmigration of all those british, danish, irish, and spanish descended CO2 producing bastards. Only the real Americans will be left, and then everything'll be just peachy.
in 1900 russia was hundreds of years behind the rest of the world, with communism came vast improvements in the economy (and then 'a bit' of a downfall at the end because of all the military spending)
I don't understand this economic argument. The US has a debt of $7.5 trillion. Bush and his administration have done their best to make this even worse with tax cuts for the richest 1% of the population , huge over-spending on the military industrial complex, yet they argue that signing up to Kyoto is economically damaging. THEY are economcially damaging as well as environmentally damaging. It's complete nonsense. Bush & Cheney's links to oil are no secret and it is a complete fallacy to suggest that their main motive for knocking Kyoto on the head is economics.
I don't say this lightly, but...
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