> This is where Dubya may be very sneaky in the larger context of his
> voluntary compliance line. He scraps the treaty even as he knows
> Corp execs will continue with whatever strategies they're putting in
> place to do what it takes since they believe the "threat" is real. They
> then come out a decade or so hence and say "we've met and/or
> exceed the guidelines laid out in the defunct K. agreement" and
> "see we are capable of doing the right thing without big government
> or pesky international green leviathan's telling us what to do." Good
> old business pragmatism scores a big PR victory.
Or it could just a replay of what he did here in TX with "grandfathered" polluters. Several hundred industrial plants were sparred compliance with the state's 1971 Clean Air Act. The exemption was intended for a few years, maybe four. That was three decades ago. Today, under Shrub's system of voluntary compliance, a plan literally drafted by the industry, of 850 plants, 28 developed a plan to reduce pollution, while just 3 actually did something.
He truly is a horrid little troll.
-- Shane
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