Re: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto Protocol commitments to ...

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Japan, like many other countries, are waking up to reality. They are seeing what harm they would have to do to their economies to reach what is really an arbitrary goal.

What the goal should have been was to have the signatory nations work together to steadily develop newer scrubber technologies to pull carbon out of smokestacks and alternate energy sources, including nuclear, and applying them at an economically feasible rate. However, government and bureaucrats don't like that because it is open ended and doesn't give them much power. They prefer crazy schedules and minutia with all kinds of regulations fines and punishments so the can smash things they can't comprehend, like industry, and get their power kicks.

In a message dated 6/16/2011 1:48:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Japan has said it aims to reduce carbon emissions 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, but it will not make that pledge part of a binding agreement unless all other major economies join in an emissions-reduction treaty.