Canada: First out of a sinking Kyoto ship?

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For Canada, the cost of either meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, or failing to do so, was too much to bear.

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[redrumloa]

Confirming the move, environment minister Peter Kent said to meet its obligations under the accord Canada would have to take every single vehicle off its roads.
"Every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car," he elaborated in a media briefing, before giving another equally unpalatable option of closing down the country's entire farming and agricultural sector and cutting heat to every home, building and factory.
If the country failed to do so, Kent said taxpayers would have to give $14 billion to other countries "with no impact on emissions or the environment."

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

If you don't like a thing, give only bad options to get it done. Works on kids but they eventually wise up to it. It's the old "false dichotomy" trick.

 

[faethor]

Works in the business world too. I, infrequently now but more in the past, do consulting projects. I rank cost on my project preference. If it's something I hate doing it costs them more to get me to do it.