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Lofty goals for everyone. But nearly no one has achieved the goals of the Kyoto protocol. And certainly no-one has achieved it by purposeful design, instead by the accident of history.
Setting goals as such with no political or social commitment to their fulfillment does not result in any change. The opposition parties have not provided tools of compliance for government and industry. Personally and professionally, I opposed best development practices. The government cannot successfully predict the future best practices for pollution reduction. We recognized this in the Montreal Protocol for reduction of ozone-depleting substances, and that was very successful.
The best tools in my opinion, are regulate market cap-and-trade programs FOR ALL POLLUTANTS, or alternatively, pollutants taxed on a volume basis. The Liberals royally fucked the latter as a possibility for sometime. The electorate could not trust them to make it revenue neutral, and their timing was horrible.
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