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[quote user="DwightBranch"]When the US is is finally forced, kicking and screaming, to sign a treaty limiting its greenhouse gas emissions (likely in response to the demands for ecotariffs on the US by Europeans that would cost roughly the same) the US will likely be limited to producing 5% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, because we are 5% of the world's population. [/quote] The U.S. emits disproportionately more CO2 than many other lesser-developed countries because it has a lager manufacturing base and a higher standard of living.  If you force the world to redistribute the right to emit CO2 on the basis of population, there can only be two results.   <o:p></o:p> One is that the U.S. pays what amounts to a gigantic fine for continuing its standard of living and manufacturing.  That other is that the U.S. will not pay the fine, and so the U.S. standard of living and manufacturing base will have to fall to reach parity with the rest of the world’s countries.     <o:p></o:p> It always strikes me as such a happy little coincidence that the remedy for MMGW just so happens to require the U.S. giving its wealth away to the lesser-developed countries until we all have the same amount.
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