Regarding the Global Climate treaty just concluded in Kyoto…One can hardly come to any other conclusion than that this treaty is an effort to transfer wealth from the industrialized nations to the third world, China and India, etc. It also will end up creating more pollution rather than less. Here's how:
All of the businesses that intended to pollute in the first place will simply move to the third world where the Kyoto treaty stipulates NO controls. Thus we have a migration of jobs and wealth and a license to pollute. The likely result is even more pollution than we have now, since most industrialized nations have fairly stringent controls on green house gas emissions already.
Instead of imposing emission restraints on whole industrial countries based on 1990 figures (which surely mean more drastic cuts than most people think). The treaty should impose fair and equal restrictions on the whole world (if emission controls is what we are striving for), much the way the EPA has operated in this country for several decades, bringing air and water pollution under control on a world wide basis rather than merely in spots where it is already being handled.
By the way, why is pollution less bad in Malaysia than it would be in the US? This treaty is certainly a case of double standards imposed by people who do not understand the consequences of their actions.
WJ Rayment
