Viewed From the Trenches
Having been a registered representative of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)to the United Nations for seven years, I have gained deep admiration for the almost seamless process whereby squishy, soft law congeals into binding, hard law. In December, 1997, the Kyoto Protocol became the marble slab upon which the voluntary reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, embraced in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit as the Framework Convention on Climate Change, was finally ladled out to solidify as binding controls on greenhouse gases for a few countries.
Because only twenty-six specified developed nations and thirteen nations listed as "in transition to market economies" would be bound by the Protocol, some 128 nations under no commitments certainly had to view the process as pure candy-making for themselves.
Tell Us What You Really Think
Why candy? Because what had really been established was economic, not environmental. What really was established was the new anticipated global currency, which I’ll call the "Kyo." The "Kyo" might just be the trading certificate for "GreenHouseGold" (GHG -- although GHG normally means greenhouse gases). In a grand alchemist’s cauldron, non-emissions suddenly transformed into wealth and emissions transformed into debt. Overnight, any industrialized country desiring to undergo any project which required energy use, would be forced to "buy" non-emissions in order to proceed. Lest you think this smacks of extortion, let me assure you, you are correct.
The Kyoto Protocol is a prime piece of the embodiment of a massive, grand, global scheme for redistribution of the world’s wealth from "abilities" to "needs" [Heart of the Third Way]-- a scheme which has flamed in the hearts of egalitarians of all stripes and "-isms" for ten thousand years of known human history.
While Kyoto deals with so-called "greenhouse gasses" rather than agrieculture, you can see how the removal of our agricultural capability in order to make us dependent on the import of recources will redistribute the wealth of the United States to corrupt, poverty-stricken, third world nations, thus making the US into another corrupt, poverty-stricken, third world nation.
Kyoto and other international treaties have a lot more to do with enriching a particular class of global elites than they do with redistributing wealth to poverty-stricken third world inhabitants.