eureka wrote:
Why would an other country pull out. The world at large knows what is at stake and knows that it is far beyond the political advantage of any individual politician.
Stephen Harper and the Republicans in America are just about the only politicians in the world who have not yet got this. The rest of his caucus is an embarrassment of toadies to Harper.
Yes, most of the world knows what is at stake - but I can think of 14 billion reasons to leave.
I could see staying if previous governments (not just the current government) had done something to reduce emissions, but nobody did - so why pay $14 BILLION to someone else? Especially when mega-emitters like China and India have no curbs on their emissions, while some European countries (like Germany) got to reduce their emissions by simply stopping production at dozens of old Cold War era factories.
If we were still in surplus and the penalty more reasonable, then I'd say fine, pay it and stay in the Protocol - but the penalty is huge and as far I as I know, that $14 billion isn't going to stop global warming all by itself. So I say, pullout and keep the $14 billion here in Canada and use it to fund eco initiatives here instead of in other countries.
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