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Originally Posted by BanannaMan
Seeing what was once the worlds greatest nation turn it's back on it's allies and isolate itself for the sake of corporate greed.
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Its hard for the leader of a country to explain to its citizens that although the country is as green as can be and has low CO2 why they haven't got a job - Europe is green but its industries are stagnant and unemployment high. The high price of 'green energy' in UK made our industries un-competitive while China was building a new coal fired power station every week, and even Germany was building new coal fired stations - the moral high ground is a very uncomfortable place when you ain't got a job.
Overpopulation is gonna kill the planet long before CO2 does, but I don't see any countries signing agreements to limit population - you can tax carbon, but no leader has the balls to tax kids, if China has not had the foresight to cut population growth way back in the 1960's (the thing a democracy would have a hard time doing) we would have all been in deep sh!t now.
It is overpopulation that is killing tigers and elephants and destroying rainforest, it is humans that are causing overgrazing and moving Sahara southwards at an alarming rate - governments trying to blame global warming when the elephant in the room (but not for much longer, they will soon be extinct) is too many people using too much resource.