Russell Chapman wrote:
>
>*This* is why Kyoto can never succeed - as soon as any government tries to
>tell its countries industries to spend incredible amounts of money on
>emissions, knowing this is going to make those industries uncompetitive
>against non-conforming rivals in other parts of the world, they face a
>terrible backlash. The only way they can do this is to water down and delay
>the implementation to such an extent that it becomes meaningless.
>Certainly Australia was never going to sign a pact that gave a massive
>advantage to American and Japanese competitors, and heavy industry is not
>even a particularly big player in our economy.
>
There's another solution; they might estimate how much is the
extra cost for cutting the emmission, multiply it by 10 and make this
an extra tax on the imports of any country that does not reduce
the emmissions.
And come to the chat room right now :-P
Alberto Monteiro
