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Originally Posted by calculoso
I am complaining about your thinking something is flawed and accepting it anyway, without even a thought on how it could be better. No obligation needed.. just a thought.. a proposal.. an idea. It can die on this CP forum. No biggie.
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I don't want to get in the middle of anything here but the suggestion of "well why don't you come up with something if you know it's not perfect" is very unrealistic.
This Kyoto Accord is, I'm sure, several thousand pages long. It took the work or thousands of people, cost millions of dollars bla bla bla. Joe Messageboard can't come up with anything better.
I don't like the accord either (it's too wimpy) but it's all we have. It's a start. It's weak, imperfect and it's ultimate goals are probably not going to be met, but it's a start. It's all we've got. Conjuring up another agreement that 160 countries are going to agree on is going to take another 10 years and another 10 after that to get the thing working. From what I've read, we don't have that kind of time.
Shouldn't we at least try to slow things down (actually try instead of commissioning another study and then another study and then another study and then making a bumper sticker) and change the "how we try" as time goes by. Use the one thing we've got until we come up with something better? It's a start. Don't we need a start?