I’m just saying…
It’s a great thing that people want to make the earth’s environment cleaner, more accessible, and make sure it stays that way for our children. Whatever you might think about global warming, I think everyone can agree that clean forests, jungles, oceans, and national parks are in all of our interests.
The question really to me is how do we go about doing this in an effective way that does not complete destroy businesses and the economy. The Kyoto Protocol that has been shoved in our face for over a decade now, is obviously not the right answer. One only has to look at the results to see what I mean:
Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.
Those numbers are from a report, summarized here, pointing to the very problem that I am talking about. Despite the heavy-handed policies imposed by the Kyoto Protocols, levels of carbon dioxide have risen sharply in an overwhelming majority of nations that signed it.
Of course, the Left’s answer would be that Kyoto simply did not got far enough, and that we should implement even more severe standards to fix the problem. This strangle ignores the fact that:
…emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto
Here’s all I’m saying: If you believe in global warming, wouldn’t you at least want to find a solution to the problem not based on blind leftist ideology, but maybe one that actual produces results?
By the way, here are some numbers on other countries rise in emissions from 1997-2004 (the US was at 6.6%):
Maldives, 252%.
Sudan, 142%.
China, 55%.
Luxembourg, 43%
Iran, 39%.
Iceland, 29%.
Norway, 24%.
Russia, 16%.
Italy, 16%.
Finland, 15%.
Mexico, 11%.
Japan, 11%.
Canada, 8.8%.