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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 78027" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_treaty#Position_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_treaty#Position_of_the_United_States</a></p><p> </p><p>Wikipedia has an interesting article on Kyoto with the section on the US position liked above. Kyoto in many respects IMO is bogus. If you really look hard at it, as in read the treaty to begin with (thank you internet), what is being done is an attempt to commoditize pollution and thus create a market for buying and selling the rights to pollute via pollution credits. Now in it's defense, the thinking is making it an economic payoff for developed countries to formulate solutions and then sell their un-needed pollution credits to other countries for a profit which subsidizes the cost of the alternatives to greenhouse gases. In other words, you use the free market to solve the problem. Problem is not everyone is in the boat including the 2 biggest potential polluters going forward and that is China and India. Kyoto because of this appears to be a document also about global wealth and business redistribution. I'm all for Zero pollution and think we all should do everything we can towards that effort but I'm not sold on Kyoto by a long shot. </p><p> </p><p>Democrats decry Bush about Kyoto but the fact is they had their doubts prior to Bush so that ole saying of the pot calling the kettle black comes into play on this one!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 78027, member: 2189"] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_treaty#Position_of_the_United_States"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_treaty#Position_of_the_United_States[/URL] Wikipedia has an interesting article on Kyoto with the section on the US position liked above. Kyoto in many respects IMO is bogus. If you really look hard at it, as in read the treaty to begin with (thank you internet), what is being done is an attempt to commoditize pollution and thus create a market for buying and selling the rights to pollute via pollution credits. Now in it's defense, the thinking is making it an economic payoff for developed countries to formulate solutions and then sell their un-needed pollution credits to other countries for a profit which subsidizes the cost of the alternatives to greenhouse gases. In other words, you use the free market to solve the problem. Problem is not everyone is in the boat including the 2 biggest potential polluters going forward and that is China and India. Kyoto because of this appears to be a document also about global wealth and business redistribution. I'm all for Zero pollution and think we all should do everything we can towards that effort but I'm not sold on Kyoto by a long shot. Democrats decry Bush about Kyoto but the fact is they had their doubts prior to Bush so that ole saying of the pot calling the kettle black comes into play on this one! [/QUOTE]
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