At 09:35 PM 7/27/01 -0700 Marc Erickson wrote:
>: As has been demonstrated already in substantial detail on this List, Kyoto
>: has been dead for a very long time now.
>
>Oh really? So exactly what did 180+ nations think they were agreeing to?
They were agreeing to a Treaty that only comes into effect if either:
1) The US agrees to it to.
2) Japan and most of the rest of the world agrees to it to.
Given that the United States is known to not be agreeing to the Treaty, and
#2 is exceedingly difficult, those nations were engaging in the usual sort
of ineffectual self-aggrandizement and America-bashing that has sadly
become the de rigeur of international politics since the end of the Cold War.
Those 180+ nations get to take credit of being oh-so-holier-than- the evil
USA, with full knowledge that they will never be held accountable for a
single cost.
Feh.
JDG
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