Remember, the purpose of the Protocol is to redistribute wealth by controlling access to, and the cost of, energy. That's why the Protocol is binding only upon developed nations, leaving China, India and other developing nations to use all the energy they want, without penalty.All, The above is EXACTLY SO! The protocol is for control period. And at a level of GOVERNMENT{?} with absolutely NO accountability to the "common man". ONLY the rich and powerful will have any type of input into the "consensuses" reached to govern YOUR children. Peace and love, George.
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Guys, The pressure IS ON! Peace and love, George.
There are problems, of course, but if we work on making ourselves energy independent, we can make the real politik of the E.U. work against them.
The trading of carbon credits is the mechanism for the redistribution of world wealth. This has been a major objective of the UN since at least the 60's.
Back in the days of my mispent youth, I was a participant in the Model UN program at my university. Students were assigned to represent various UN countries. We met and debated various resolutions. The redistribution of world wealth was always a subject for debate.
The way Kyoto would work is this. Each country would be assigned a quota of carbon by-products on a per-capita basis. Obviously, the lesser developed countries would have a surplus while the US would have a deficit. The US would either have to reduce energy consumption and living standards of buy carbon credits from the lesser developed countries. Buying these credits would result in a massive transfer of wealth. We would be forced to 'buy' something from a country that the country would not and could not use. Imagine, having to pay a country like Banglidesh for the right to heat your home or drive your car.
Well, don't we feed most of the world?
Water empire their butts!
>>>>the purpose of the Protocol is to redistribute wealth by controlling access to, and the cost of, energy<<<<<<
We are the wealthiest country in the world. what good can it do us to redistribute that wealth to someone.? Wealth redistributed to other places is wealth lost here. It would be stupid for us to do that and any damned fool should realise that.
All I want to say is, now that I've had my say, it's a good thing I haven't had breakfast yet, global warming my...remaing comments self censored.
The answer to Kyoto and the WTO is , first, ANWR and coastal oil then ultimately nuclear energy abd deregulation. We will either go along to get along and become part of a rapidly declining Europe or we will take the American route and simply separate ourselves from Europe with American Enterprise and Nuclear energy. WTO and NAFTA and all of those things were expressions of the right idea about free markets and free people but the WRONG way to go about it. We should simply have dropped all barriers to trade (excepting military information), with one part of the world at a time, but relentlessly. Other countries would have to reciprocate or die economically. such things as Kyoto would be impossible. If we deregulate now and take the wraps off nuclear energy and oil we will render Kyoto ineffective against us and will rapidly leave any Kyoto bound country in the economic dust as Europe becomes the backwater workshop of American prosperity.
I don't think they'd have the balls. That would be begging for global war with the US
If Bush had the power to force a vote like that one, he'd have all the judicial nominees he wanted!
You mean, it's not really about the environment, but about MONEY? I am shocked and disappointed.
Let's not forget that there are American troops sitting on millions of barrels of oil in Iraq that the Europeans would love to get their hands on.
American blood has already paid the Iraqis for that oil.
Then it's time to leave.
It would seem that the quickest solution to this threat is for the US to take complete control of the energy sources we need. It sounds to me like this is a threat of economic WAR.