Rumours have just come out that our government is planning on abandoning our obligations to the Kyoto Protocol. Though they are denying it at present they do believe it has failed.
The main reason the government is arguing it has fail is that the USA and China are not a part of the agreement. Therefore they believe anything Canada does will be pointless as our air will continually be polluted by these two giants.
Liberal opponents are quick to point out to our Conservative government that they have legal and moral obligations to abide by the protocol. That clean air is a promise we made to future generations.
There are no hard facts that our Government wishes to abandon the protocol. I agree with our conservatives that Kyoto has failed and will fail unless everyone is in it together. At the same time I agree with our liberals that above all else we have an obligation. We are responsible for what actions we take, and not what the world does.
When it comes to Kyoto we are failing it and this needs to change, and dropping the agreement is not the answer. So I sincerely hope we stick it out and try and turn this around. Otherwise we really are internationally humiliating our self, but worst of all we are stealing from our children.
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