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Finally- the Kyoto Agreement comes into force today
BillieTheBot
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4267245.stm
There is a bit of hope yet.
Shame that the government of the world's biggest polluting nation continues to behave like a selfish, greedy, unilateralist pariah and refuses to join.
And shame to the odious Australian government too.
There is a bit of hope yet.
Shame that the government of the world's biggest polluting nation continues to behave like a selfish, greedy, unilateralist pariah and refuses to join.
And shame to the odious Australian government too.
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Whether this treaty will help or not I really dont know, have UN treaties done a massive amount of good in the past?
Incredibly, the US government and the neo-cons still claim there is no such thing or that it is not a bad thing.
In the end it is the way we live our lives at the individual level that is the important factor, not these big govt deals, though they help to set the tone and enforce change to some degree.
If everyone thought more about there own actions we could easily meet and better the Kyoto targets......
Never fail to say the stupid thing, do you?
The Honest thing...
The Correct thing.
Given that the US and Oz have refused to sign for financial reasons only...
yes, a complete and utter flaw, there's no point in trying to save the earth now because two countries aren't included. :rolleyes:
india and china together will never waste as much as the USA alone, whatever century we're in.
there's a difference in not meeting the requirments as the source says and point blankly refusing to sign.
explain, americans have absolutely no regard whatsoever for the earth or it's resources and while it maintains it's hegemony over the world, nothing will change....idiot
here's a quote from the source
"But the world's top polluter - the US - has not signed up to the treaty."
"Large developing countries including India, China and Brazil are not required to meet specific targets for now."
Actually they are.
Only 36 nations have specific targets to achieve, and they are the "developed" countries who can. The plan is that the others will have to develop whilst not increasing their levels of pollution...
1. Did you read what I wrote?
2. Wouldn't one reducing be better than neither reducing?
I'll try again.
6% of the worlds population.
25% of the worlds pollution.
Good old U S of A :yeees:
kyoto ...to little to late in my opinion.
i agree with luke tha china especialy is a huge problem with as yet no answers.
I think his comment speaks for itself. Although only 6% of the population, they are the cause of 25% of the pollution.
You can bitch and moan about China and India all you like, but until the US starts taking pollution seriously we really aren't going to get much change.
In fact, if the rest of the world play their part, the US proportion will just increase.
Oh FFS.
Maturity not a option for you?
Why dont you just say 'my dads bigger than your dad'?
um the US helped to write kyoto ya know. and then there was the whole "election" thing in 2000 and we backed out.
hey now lets not stereotype here. lol.
and besides there's nothing wrong with wanting to stuff our fat faces with Whoppers whilst driving through town in our Hummers getting 2 gallons to the mile. :thumb:
In geography we have a theme about this phenomena (no clue what it's called, and what it is, just got told tody that I have to write an assignment about it for thursday. WTF), and saw a video with all kinds of specialists.
Basically it is argued that co2 has nothing to do with the ozone layer and that the whole thing is caused by the thing I don't know what is. And that the politicians are using the co2 as a political mean of power. Think of selling and buying quotas and imposing environment taxes.
Will try to find out more about what the thing actually is, or called for that matter, but yeah just thought I'd mention it.
Some geographers and scientists do indeed argue that the climate change that is occuring now is indeed just a natural phenomenon. The climate has quite heavily fluctuated since the last ice age.
You cynic you.
If interested then look up a guy called Nigel Calder who commented on this.