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"If only we stopped the climate from changing, we could have"
taken away the ability of some countries to use fossil fuels as a weapon ("defanged Saudi Arabia", et al), and take the availability and price of oil out of the economic equation. But, we were already too late to stop some change when Hansen first testified in '88. so the best we could have done was minimize the change.
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"Prevented 9/11"
IIRC, the excuse for 9/11 was our presence on the "holy soil of Saudi Arabia". We were there as a result of the Gulf War. That, in large part, was because of the Carter Doctrine. If we had signed on to the Kyoto
Accords, we still would have been FF-dependent in '01.
The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force, if necessary, to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf. It was a response to the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, and it was intended to deter the Soviet Union, the United States' Cold War adversary, from seeking hegemony in the Persian Gulf region.
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