War is for Winning

The Kyoto Protocols are planet destroyingly bad policy.

The "idea" behind them is flawed. The results are catastrophic. The precedent they set is that it is okay to fail as long as you mean well. The only "good" is the publicity its supporters bring to highlighting the facts of climate change.

The "idea" is to limit Annex I countries to 10% less emissions than their 1990 levels. This is presumed to be a good thing, when even if it were (in some unlikely event) achieved it would deliver no good outcome. The reason it doesn't benfit the planet is that a cap of emissions from point source producers (factories, farms, incinerators) allows us consumers to offshore our pollution. This exercise in pointlessness, migrates consumed pollution elsewhere. A real solution to climate change can only be found through the modification of consumer society.