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Originally Posted by retsuki03
The Kyoto Treaty is a scam. People who don't know anything about it assume the US (and that cowboy Bush) are diplomatic retards. The reality is it is completely counter to the US interests. THAT is why we aren't going to sign it.
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How can you possibly know this with such dogmatic certainty?
In order to come to this conclusion, you would have had to:
--know the magnitude/rate of global warming;
--know the causes of global warming;
--know fully what the ecological impacts of global warming will be in the near and distant future;
--know fully what the direct economic impacts of global warming will be in the near and distant future;
--know fully what the toll in human lives and health of global warming will be in the near and distant future;
--make a calculus that converts the human toll into current economic marginal value;
--make a calculus that converts the ecological toll (incl. species extinctions) into current economic marginal value;
--know fully what the current economic cost of the Kyoto treaty will be.
In the absence of this detailed knowledge, I think the appropriate attitude is open-minded scepticism, with respect and willingness to synthesize and evaluate opposing points of view.