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In a major blow to the campaign against the presumed threat of global warming, world leaders acknowledge that a legally binding global treaty won't be approved at next month's 192-nation climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Developed nations are reluctant to limit domestic greenhouse gas emissions for fear of harming their already slumping economies.
- They also resist subsidizing poorer nations' efforts.
- Meanwhile, developing nations, like China and India, refuse to adopt restrictions unless wealthier nations like the United States compen$ate them for the cost.
This could be a long-term standoff because there is an understandable worldwide reluctance to commit what increasingly looks like economic suicide.
- The proposed 20-percent greenhouse-gas reduction by 2020 would mean the United States returning to 1977 emission levels, radically changing both the U.S. economy and our personal lives.
- Car and truck miles traveled would have to be reduced by one-third, which would seriously reduce travel and transportation, and likely force changes in automobile design that consumers would not like.
- The amount of coal burned to create electricity would have to be cut in half without feasible alternatives to pick up the slack.
Such concerns so far block congressional efforts. Senators from industrial, carbon-emitting states are reluctant to impose regulations that will put their constituencies at an economic peril.
"If we passed a bill that the rest of the world didn't follow, then Uncle Sam could soon become Uncle Sucker and export all of our jobs to China."
[Forget the costs {as horrific as they are}: our children's loss of liberty with regard to all activity would be nearly absolute. All for a lie.]READ MORE
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