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Posted by WillD on Sat Nov 4 17:08:29 2006, in response to Re: Earths Magnetic Feild/Currents Reversing?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 30 12:58:43 2006. No one seems to want to tell China and India to "stop".That's because on a per capita basis they're still well under Europe, and especially the US for CO2 production. We can't exactly tell the Chinese to stop producing CO2 when we're burning some 20 million barrels of oil and 3 million tons of coal every day. Of course the Kyoto signers probably need to recognize that China and India are far from the developing economies the treaty identifies them as, and that it is incumbent upon both nations to engage in the same international support for CO2 abatement as the other signing developed nations. I don't see why there needs to be conclusive proof that carbon dioxide is a contributing factor to global climate change before we act on it. We've done plenty of stupid shit on far less conclusive support (a certain ongoing war comes to mind), and in this case the recognition of carbon dioxide as a pollutant could very well keep the planet inhabitable for your children. We're talking just a few million dollars today to prevent what could likely be hundreds of billions of dollars to fix the problem 25 to 50 years from now. |
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