(Let's ignore for the moment the fact that the USA isn't in Kyoto and that it's arguably pointless from the get-go as a result -- this question pertains only the countries which _are_ in it.)
If it weren't for our efforts to stop this nonsense, we would be part of it.
I recently ran across an article claiming that the course Canada is currently planning to take to satisfy the Kyoto accord is to, basically, do nothing, and then buy their way out by massive purchases of CO2 credits.
Sounds like blackmail to me/
http://www.ledevoir.com/2005/04/16/79517.html
Now, if Canada can do this, presumably other industrialized nations can do it too -- in which case the whole treaty seems like a pointless exercise.
It does nothing about the third world and penalizes Americans.
Or is the Canada plan predicated on the assumption that nobody else is going to try the same thing, since if everybody wants to be a net buyer the price of a credit could be expected to head for the moon?
Anybody here been following this one?
I've been following the escapades of the UN since 1956 and the war of Katanglaese succession. They screwed that up. AFAIK they have screwed up everything else they have attempted too. Excuse me, some of the independent agencies have done some good. But the UN itself is 190 some stooges doing a world government. Imagine Sudan and Libia on the Human Rights Counsel. The majority rules, and the majority of governments are despotic. They can't even get rid of Coffie Anan who just got caught with his hands in the till up to his elbows! The organization is, IMHO, a complete waste of money. If I had my druthers, I'd order them out of the country and convert the building into office space.
Worse, as the thread, no body wants it alludes, there seems to be a diabolical force in the world dedicated to making the world's condition worse.
