Today, on February 16, the Kyoto Protocol...
without divine insight, magic or devilry. All the human race"s efforts to save the climate founder on this problem: how to switch from fossil fuels to environmentally safe sources of energy.This will not happen overnight. Humanity has never attempted such a biblical change and there is no evidence that we are ready for it. If it is to be achieved it requires the destruction of the very foundation of the global economy, not to mention curing a couple billion consumers (that is, voters) of their extravagant energy consumption. For any politician this goal is not altruistic but suicidal.
As for Russia, it only gained from Copenhagen"s incompleteness (aren"t we lucky?). On the eve of it, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published a forecast of tentative changes in the structure and scale of gas consumption in Europe until 2020. IEA experts concluded that if a post-Kyoto protocol (a new document restricting air pollution) were signed in Copenhagen, Russia would
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