From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 14:12:54 MDT
>From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>>Brian D Williams wrote:
>> The Kyoto protocol/treaty is useless precisely because it
>> excludes countries like China, arguably the worlds largest
>> polluter/producer of greenhouse gases, not to mention the rest
>> of the socialist nonsense concealed in the treaty.
>I think curtailing our damage to the environment is important.
>That is why I oppose letting some nations off the hook.
We agree on this. But in a nation where every other car is an SUV
how many people are paying anything other than lip service to the
idea?
>I understand the argument that they are trying to catch up with
>other countries.
Understand, or agree with?
>Such a scheme implies that clean air is a luxury afforded to the
>rich countries, but which cannot be afforded by the poor
>countries.
That's not the only scheme at work with the Kyoto protocol, it also
hands off enforcement to the U.N. which is another attempt at
expanding the U.N. towards world government.
Another good reason to be against it.
There's also some technology sharing junk in there....
>Similarly, the current curtailing of individual rights in the U.S.
>to fight terrorism implies that rights are merely luxuries
>afforded when there are no dangers. But whenever a serious threat
>to the country occurs, we abandon our previous political system as
>unworkable and revert to more restrictive regimes.
The phone system was opened to the FBI during the Clinton
administration under the guise of the "digital telephony act", and
these same liberals didn't say a peep.
>There is something wrong with any plan that only seems to work
>when times are easy. If the system breaks down or needs to be
>abandoned when vital stakes depend on it, it is not a good system.
>People who are willing to abandon such schemes really don't
>believe in them in the first place.
I agree.
The simple fact is that there is not a consenus on global warming
in this country, and until there is these plans are unworkable,
especially one sided plans like the Kyoto protocol.
Brian (who now rides his bike to work out at the YMCA)
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