What's up with that!?(CNN) -- For Canada, the cost of either meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, or failing to do so, was too much to bear.
On Monday, the country became the first signatory of the landmark climate treaty to back out of the deal, citing the huge potential cost of legally binding commitments.
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."
Oh Canada!
Oh Canada!
Breaking News! Canada backs out of Kyoto Protocol
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At least they tried. George Bush and the US were like.. Fuck that we're not signing shit.
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the kyoto accord was all political and economical anyway. it does nothing to reduce humanity's impact on the environment. it was mostly a big financial handout to "developing" nations at the cost of wealthy ones that already pollute less.
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The current govt. (which was the official opposition back when Kyoto was signed) was always against Kyoto anyways. It's not surprising that they dropped out of it at the first opportunity.
Now they're free to mis-spend my tax money on other things..
Now they're free to mis-spend my tax money on other things..
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Its super important to build lots of prisons while all types of crime have been plummeting in the last decade.
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They are going to need someplace to put the political prisoners when the austerity riots start.
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man's-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
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cheaper to just put them in the ground
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Look at Canada go with the Olympic medal count!
Freestyle Skating and Skiing dominance.
Freestyle Skating and Skiing dominance.
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If Russia gets to include Siberia in their medal counts, the U.S. should get to include Canada!
1 United States 25
2 Russia 23
3 Canada 22
We'd be killing it!
1 United States 25
2 Russia 23
3 Canada 22
We'd be killing it!