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Richard:

Perhaps you are correct re. potential global warming BUT Kyoto will not
provide any significant environmental result.  If we are to do
something, let's make it timely and substantive and not reduce action to
some meaningless gesture that will burden our ability to take later
effective action.

Richard Vialls wrote:
> 
> In article <3613f30f.3559695@fermi.dialix.com.au>, Greig Ebeling
> <eggsoft@sydney.dialix.oz> writes
> 
> >Remedial action on soil degradation.
> >Preservation of water supplies
> >Protection of ocean life and fisheries
> >Native forest flora and fauna preservation.
> >etc etc
> 
> >So, Richard, which projects do you think are less important than
> >climate change?  Please produce a list of those projects you believe
> >should cancelled or reduced to provide funding for the costs of Kyoto.
> 
> If (and I stress the if) the predictions regarding climate change are
> right, then it may well have a far greater impact on many of the items
> you mentioned above than the problems which the above remedial action is
> designed to counter. I personally believe we have to take climate change
> very seriously indeed - at least while we do more to find out what is
> really going on.
> 
> As for the cost of implementing Kyoto, I believe that more money can be
> found for environmental change than you suggest. Many of the
> environmental improvements that can be made actually benefit companies
> and governments financially (waste reduction, etc.), for example. To say
> that we can't afford environmental improvements today is to push that
> cost onto tommorow - with inflation.
> 
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