Kyoto: Soon, We’ll have to pay billions
November 29, 2005 · By kaqchikel
As the Kyoto-phile conference in Montreal looks forward to a post-Kyoto world when the Accord expires in 7 years, news from the EU missing targets for emissions, again, underscores the world of fantasy in which the movement operates. Canada, the conference’s host, is embarrassingly poised to increase emissions by 26% this year.
While the Canadian government has carried on public discourse internationally, it has been doing almost the contrary at home. Both the former and current Canadian Environment ministers seem to agree on the question of credibility:
“The deals made with industry was like giving away the store,” said David Anderson, a Liberal member of Parliament and former environment minister. “The increase in Canadian emissions at one of the higher levels among industrialized countries affects our credibility to discuss future targets.”
Dion said Canada still had a strong environmental reputation internationally. But he acknowledged that if its emissions had declined rather than increased, “our credibility would be stronger.”
Considering the billions that Canada has pledged to pay if the targets are not met, wouldn’t it be cheaper just to scrap the idea?
Crossposted from Civitatensis.ca
The idea is not flawed, it is our execution. Having a goal and setting targets to achieve that goal makes sense. Having the political will to make those changes, however, is another story all together.
They said the same thing about Soviet Communism, btw. Great idea: bad execution. You’d have to convince us that the idea of Kyoto makes sense.
I think we should agree to the Kyoto Protocol…it would be very nice on our environment…it’s s good idea