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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (6095)	3/27/2006 3:39:05 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Kyoto is a socialistic program to slow the West Maybe a fair point, but "the west" creates most of the effluent gases anyway. Fix the problem where it is, forget the political correctness. The view is... the more technically advanced nations become the torch bearer for other nations to follow. They will (are already) polluting, and they need to be controlled too. The global warming issue, although important, is not the central political issue as far as I am concerned. Good clean world wide standards and agreements for agriculture, manufacturing and industry is what I would like to see. The environment is the most important asset we have. If world governments can clear the hurdle on environment protection, maybe the next one would be to see if we can take the worst edge off any climate change that occurs. Multinationals manufacturing everything overseas looks like a socialistic program to slow down the West too as far as I can make out. Growing vegetables in one country, and flying them over to another for consumption in another country also seems odd to me as well. Very costly in energy and "carbon footprint". Increases in expected air traffic will wipe out all the expected gains in CO2 reduction from the news I have read. So "free market" yes, but strong environmental protection included, for everyones sake. The cost of anything should have things like environmental damage priced into it too. The current "free market" isn't free. No free lunch these days.