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How to tackle climate change, recession isn’t good enough for the greens

Great! Recession helps UK meet Kyoto limits

By Steve Milloy ——--July 22, 2009

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The ongoing global recession has reduced UK productivity so much that the nation’s CO2 emissions are below the levels set by the Kyoto Protocol, reports the Guardian.
But don’t expect the greens top be happy about it. Sandbag’s Bryony Worthington told The Guardian that,
“With too many rights to pollute in circulation, the [Kyoto emissions trading scheme] is in danger of being rendered irrelevant. At a time when other countries are looking to set up their own trading schemes and the world is set to debate a global deal on how to tackle climate change, [this] flagship policy urgently needs rescuing – starting with much tougher caps.”
So a recession isn’t good enough for the greens. We need a depression.

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Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and GreenHellBlog.com and is the author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them

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