>(from Ian Murrray forward):
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>The United States argues that emissions trading is the most
>cost-effective way to meet the global target of reducing greenhouse
>gases by 5.2 percent from 1990 levels, and would give a breathing
>space for the transition to cleaner energy and expensive new
>technologies.
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>What is fascinating to me is how easily we have been brought along to
>accept as completely normal that there is indeed global warming, that
>polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and nobody
>cares. That is pretty astonishing, if you really consider it.
>
>All those issues are now routinely dismissed and the only question is
>managing responses that are cost effective and as painless as
>possible, regardless of whether such responses are adequate. In other
>words, the question is how far can we allow global climate to
>deteriorate and still live with it? This kind of reduced expectations
>mentality assumes that climatic conditions are a smooth continuum. In
>other words we can post-pone going to hell with the installment plan.
"_Apres moi le deluge!_ is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation."
Yoshie