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Kyoto Protocol
Topic Started: Jul 28 2006, 03:58 PM (231 Views)
Sepultura
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

I think 163 nations joined this already. but of coarse, America has yet to join it. They actually pulled out of it even more in 2001. Why wouldnt the US joing this treaty. They say it will hurt the econonmy, but the economy wont matter when the world ends in 150 years. I say America and all the other nations jump on the bandwagon.
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You answered your own question. America won't join because it will hurt the economy, mainly big buisness. Nothing is going to change as long as Bush is in office so don't get your hopes up.
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The U.S. refused to join because Kyoto didn't place any restrictions on the pollutant output of developing nations like China and India.

Of course, any accord that put restrictions on everybody would be signed by nobody, so Kyoto would have just been the beginning, a stepping-stone to bigger and better pollution controls, but whatever. Tough beans old chap.
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To add to Necro's point, it should be noted that China is the #2 producer of air pollution (may have been of a specific sort, but I don't recall offhand) in the world, behind the US, and is catching up rapidly as they develop. Yet they're exempt.

That seems like saying "Get the hell out of here" to a guy that pulls out a pack of Marlboros while ushering in a guy lighting up his first fine Cuban stogie (and carrying several ready for use).
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If it doesn't blanket everyone, then no one should sign it.

And China is a developing nation? This is news to me.

I thought they were right behind the US and Japan.

Wow, I have not been paying attention.
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Well, Kett, things like which countries are 'developing' and which aren't seems to be a rather grey area when it comes to China. It's "developing" when it comes to international policies that could slow it's economic growth, but it's "nearing superpower status" otherwise.

Wonder if it has anything to do with their choice of economic or political system . . . nah, couldn't be. . .
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america doesnt join just about anything that has somthing to do with saving the enviorment its too costly and would most probably hurt industrial buissness in the uSA.
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Kett
Aug 9 2006, 05:28 AM
And China is a developing nation? This is news to me.

About 60% of China's population lives from subsistence farming. That makes it a developing nation by any measure. The only reason it's such an economic powerhouse is that it has a really damned huge population.
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