The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.
The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
Environmentalism has failed.
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