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**Spalax** · 05-09-2012, 06:26 PM

Not only is the Kyoto protocol long gone, now they won't even meet the Copenhagen promise of 17% below 2005 levels:

Here's a newsflash: We wouldn't meet that level regardless of what Harper did.

The people who promised that were mentally retarded.

Let's resume the main points of our previous discussion:

1) Harper works directly for the oil lobby There's no point in discussing absurdity.

Harper represents his constituents whose interests are directly connected with the health of the energy industry. He is doing his job as an elected member of the legislature.

2) He probably honestly thinks that the energy sector is Canada's economic future, so it's not like he's doing it "without a reason" Only a Quebecker or someone similarly lacking in rationality would argue something otherwise.

3) The result is still that the only way to preserve the value of oil on the long term is to torpedo international agreements for as long as possible I think this is a stretch. More appropriately he's weighed the tradeoff between reducing GHG by 0.1% globally and torpedoing the strongest part of Canada's economy and decided only a moron would think it's a good thing to agree to nebulous agreements with no consequences for the world's largest polluters.

05-09-2012, 06:26 PM	#2
Spalax Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	Not only is the Kyoto protocol long gone, now they won't even meet the Copenhagen promise of 17% below 2005 levels: Here's a newsflash: We wouldn't meet that level regardless of what Harper did. The people who promised that were mentally retarded. Let's resume the main points of our previous discussion: 1) Harper works directly for the oil lobby There's no point in discussing absurdity. Harper represents his constituents whose interests are directly connected with the health of the energy industry. He is doing his job as an elected member of the legislature. 2) He probably honestly thinks that the energy sector is Canada's economic future, so it's not like he's doing it "without a reason" Only a Quebecker or someone similarly lacking in rationality would argue something otherwise. 3) The result is still that the only way to preserve the value of oil on the long term is to torpedo international agreements for as long as possible I think this is a stretch. More appropriately he's weighed the tradeoff between reducing GHG by 0.1% globally and torpedoing the strongest part of Canada's economy and decided only a moron would think it's a good thing to agree to nebulous agreements with no consequences for the world's largest polluters.
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