This is becoming such a political football now, I am not happy. It is so 'mainstream' its alarming; its not even up for debate any more....yet there are many many well respected climatologists who are still uncertain if a reduction in carbon emissions will stop the current cycle of climate change.
My big issue is that even if, we, as good natured, and environmentally concientious Canadians complied FULLY with the Koyoto protocol at heaven knows what expense to the economy, I dont believe it would make ANY difference to the global picture, when there are no controls planned from the developing world. Countires such as China and India have no compunction about this, and will continue to spew CO2 unchecked, in fact China has plans for over 500 new coal powered plants to meet their energy needs, and that is just one aspect of their economy, excluding their instatiable demand for vehicles etc. India is another problem all together. Vast tracts of bush forest and jungle are burnt each year in the developing world taking away the carbon sink and releasing carbon at the same time. A double whammy.
So......we will all feel so good about ourselves in reducing our CO2, but it would not make one iota of difference to the total output, as other more careless nations continue unabated. In the meantime we would need to deal with a shattered economy, and wait....the climate will continue to change.
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