Money-Sucking Socialist Scheme

Yup, that's what Kyoto is. Can't blame a guy for calling a spade a spade. Now call me an anti-environmentalist, I need a good laugh to make my day. Just because one disagrees with the way in which the Kyoto Accord was developed, implemented and is now being touted, does not make one any less concerned about the environment. In fact, I could easily argue the opposite. I want our environment cleaned up. I demand it! What I don't want is for one single Canadian dollar that could be spent here on our own pollution problems going to another country. I want every penny spent here at home to clean up our own country. When we have our own yard cleaned up, then and only then will I except any of my tax dollars going elsewhere to help clean up some other country's mess. Kyoto wants us to do the exact opposite. It encourages us to spend our tax dollars on carbon credits to balance our pollution books. This is not about accounting is it? I thought the whole idea was to clean things up, reduce our GHG emissions, you know, save the world and all that fluffy stuff.

I hear that the next report coming out of the IPCC on Friday is going to tell us that, if we don't make MAJOR changes within the next ten years, we will be DOOMED. GHG levels will be past the point of return. So now, tell me again how buying CREDITS from some other country that were arbitrarily set, will clean up our mess that we have created here in Canada and how it is reducing our GHG footprint on the atmosphere? You know that 3% that we are contributing to the problem. Sending 5 million dollars to Russia or any other country for that matter, to purchase those credits cleans up our contribution of GHG's to the atmosphere by exactly how much? Ya that's what I thought. Kyoto is a joke and not worth the toilet paper it was written on. Lets spend our money on actually cleaning up our mess. We will then have the knowledge, ability and most of all, the credibility to help others do the same. Then like the good global neighbours we are, we can go out and clean up the rest of the planet one country at a time. Now what are YOU going to do about it. Don't wait for the bloody incompitent governments of the world to do it for you. Clean up your own act and then go help your neighbours clean up their's and so on and so on.