Comments on: Environment: In Bali, an inconvenient last minute proposal from the US http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/14/environment-in-bali-an-inconvenient-last-minute-proposal-from-the-us/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:13:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sean http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/14/environment-in-bali-an-inconvenient-last-minute-proposal-from-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1216334 Sean Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:07:30 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/14/environment-in-bali-an-inconvenient-last-minute-proposal-from-the-us/#comment-1216334 Funny, the US will actually be taking stronger steps than anyone towards actually curbing CO2 according to the above. Kyoto, and I suspect the current negotiations, end up with violators suffering nothing (esp as no one has met the requirements). The US is paving the way -- every country will have to set its own standards of what kind of company it keeps. Violators will be met with swift curbs on their exports. Everyone should gang up on the US and write similar laws aimed at them. Of course, those laws are just going to end up as protectionist measures. Just as the current negotiations are mainly ending up as wealth redistribution. Funny, the US will actually be taking stronger steps than anyone towards actually curbing CO2 according to the above.

Kyoto, and I suspect the current negotiations, end up with violators suffering nothing (esp as no one has met the requirements). The US is paving the way — every country will have to set its own standards of what kind of company it keeps. Violators will be met with swift curbs on their exports. Everyone should gang up on the US and write similar laws aimed at them.

Of course, those laws are just going to end up as protectionist measures. Just as the current negotiations are mainly ending up as wealth redistribution.

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