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Old 07-18-2008, 01:45 PM   #197 (permalink)
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No matter how much WE reduce and conserve, China and India don't give a rat's butt -- they are in the throws of an industrial revolution, and they don't give a hoot about energy conservation or the environment. Remember, we don't live in an energy vacuum - the oil market is a WORLD market, and demand given up here will simply be taken up THERE.
If you really want to see a visual of who "don't give a hoot" then this map shows global participation for the Kyoto Protocol in 2005, I see both India and China on there. We are the only one's (other than countires so undeveloped that they don't have a carbon footprint) that declined the protocol. The yellow is signed and ratification pending: (sorry for the huge pic)

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