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Old 04-05-2009, 04:07 AM   #17 (permalink)
Nimetic
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous View Post
If the World, the UN and its superpowers, consider it justified to sieze control of Afghanistan because of acts of terror and the local supression of human rights, I would certainly consider it MORE justified to sieze control of a rouge state which would not address the issues of carbon pollution.
This is quite simply not feasible.

Firstly - to the best of my knowledge, the highest per-capita polluters are western countries such as the US and Australia. Ignoring the latter, can you really imagine the developing world taking on the US here?

Second reason... It seems likely that the environmental cost of war (unless it is a very small scale one) may be quite high. So best to avoid that IMHO.
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