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Originally Posted by Shawnski
Nice. Glad you put forward such a compelling rebuttal.
Actually, it's pretty simple. Don't by Chinese products. The less we buy from them, the less they polute. Read a label before you buy.
And yes, do what we can on the homefront. It may not be much, but it will help, if not symbolically anyways.
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Glad you put forward such compelling reasons for us to not reduce our emissions...
"But China still pollutes! And they do it worse than us!"
"But it might hurt our economy!"
"Oh. It worked for Britain? Well Britain is different so we can't learn anything from that."
You sound like you're whining because you might have to replace your windows and lightbulbs. If you really don't care about the environment, don't change your ways. But your reasons that Canada should not try and affect change are lame. Again, we are all responsible for the state of the environment today, and we are all responsible for cleaning it up. So what if Kyoto has no teeth? It's all we've got. Until there's something better, (and feel free to propose it,) it's the only targets we have and even then, it's not enough.
FYI the same thing happened when CFCs were banned. The first round of global talks had no teeth, the second round enacted change.