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"Gianna Stefani" wrote:

"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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Given the fact that the Kyoto protocol was supposed to limit CO2 which is
supposedly a greenhouse gas ...

Are you saying it isn't then ?

and that more than 50 per-cent of the human
population have been exempt, these being China and India. If one is
serious
about limiting CO2 then these countries would have been included.

I hope you are encouraging them to join soon.

It is infantile to suggest that American goods should be boycotted.

Is it ?

China will be using more oil than America by 2010 and more than America
and
the EU put together by 2015.

They might ... but soothsaying aside ...

Isn't the whole GW issue about soothsaying?


Do we then say let's boycott Chinese goods and
then see how qucikly we get accused of racism.

Possibly - boycotting Chinese goods is no more racist than boycotting
American goods (and in fact, neither can be considered racist if they are
being boycotted for a reason other than the fact that they are Chinese,
American, etc.).

Well, what other reason are we suggesting boycotting them for. I understood
it was becuase their governments refuse to to as we tell them.

We can't even get our own European governments to do that (RIP democracy) so
what chance have we got with foreign governments who don't even need us to
vote for them.


When India are added to the equation by 2015 China and India will be
using 3 times more oil than the US.

They might ... but soothsaying aside ...

You cannot dismiss predictions based on the extrapolation of current trends
without also dismissing the GW argument which is exactly that!



Kyoto is dead in the water. It was never meant to be anything else.

Really? I imagine the learned persons involved in bringing it about, both
organisational and scientific, must be delighted to know that their efforts
were always meant to be pointless. I cannot think why they did not ask you
first before wasting all that time.

Like everything else governments do, it is a sop to try to sell people the
idea that they are doing something about the problem. As always, even if
they succeed in getting woldwide adoption of Kyoto, it will be ineffective.
It is a bit of a King Canute exercise after all!


Yes I can ...

Gianna



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