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Originally Posted by Knalus
It's 85 years man. 85 years.
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Yeah, this declaration is the equivalent of a decree in 1913 by the United States, Imperial Japan, the British Empire, the French Third Republic, the German Empire, Imperial Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire about something that will happen in 2000.
Only the US remains substantially the same.
And even if the G7 does put in the effort to get per capita energy usage and CO2 emissions down to the levels of the most efficient European countries today, you still have the rise of China, India and the rest of developing world's per capita energy usage rising from their current low.
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And if the target is set, the finality of it also sets in. This will have an effect, undoubtedly.
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Treaties can always be cancelled or ignored; with sovereign nations, you can't really force them to do anything they don't want to without invasion.