-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:57 am, Alfredo C. López wrote: > El Mié 29 Ene 2003 11:54, Chuck Burns escribió: > > We never SIGNED kyoto, because it was nothing more than a ploy to LOOK > > GOOD to ecologists. The WORST polluting countries are the 3rd world > > countries with NO environmental protection agencies, and the Kyoto treaty > > left them alone, so, of course we didn't sign it. > > That crap men..... the 3rd world countries didn't have industries..... so > is very difficult to polute in that way.... > The exxon valdez was and american bote right?
This sort of argument is erroneous for many basic reasons. A factory in a 3rd World Nation will likely pollute like crazy relative to any developed nation's factories, but there is only one or two such factories and so many fewer citizens doing their own damage. Then you have the US with many MANY factories/power plants, all putting out much less pollution PER PLANT but the sheer number of plants and the number of people doing their own polluting (a lot less than an INDIVIDUAL citizen of a 3rd World Nation) adds up to MUCH more pollution overall than a given 3rd World Nation could even aspire to produce. A lot of a little can easily add up to more than a little of a lot. And in this case, it does. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OA2G1i/6R1B/Yh0RAgBlAJ4m73JGkVCe0wjU+n1tqZXjTL8WHgCeKd6y IkzCrB6w9USnd4Zu4qZWvdI= =Oyf6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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