Captain Ed sees some big positives in the news that Canada, long a Kyoto Treaty supporter, is considering abandoning its support of Kyoto in favor of the AP6 (Asian-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate).

The AP6 makes a lot more sense than Kyoto does for that very reason. Kyoto would force the West to commit economic suicide while allowing India and China to pollute to their hearts’ content in reaping the rewards. Bush’s AP6 engages all sides equally and uses technology sharing as an incentive for compliance. The Chinese need access to Western technology so badly that they jump through hoops to steal it. India doesn’t need it as badly, but they want to create a cleaner energy system for themselves, and have expanded their nuclear program to accommodate that need.

If Canada joins the AP6, Kyoto will collapse. It will bind only those nations who already have economic difficulties, and Kyoto compliance — which none of them have met — will cost them even more. In the end, AP6 will bind all nations together in a manner that Kyoto explicitly rejected and will allow everyone to proceed with clean-environment initiatives on an equal footing.

The biggest supporters of Kyoto are the anti-western, anti-industry, anti-everything radicals that are doing all that they can to destroy the developed worlds’ economies. I think that most sane folk understand the need for clean air and clean water, control of erosion, water management strategies that will protect our aquifers, rivers, lakes and streams from industrial and agricultural pollution. The developed world understands that the oceans are the life-blood of the planet and need careful management to ensure that this resource for abundant food is not ravaged.

By having the six countries — Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States — and now possibly Canada, sharing in the development of technologies for greenhouse gasses reduction, perhaps they can begin to seriously discuss controlling the other real bad stuff — control the pollution output that actually matters, instead of chasing their tails trying to stop normal, cyclic climate change. Perhaps . . .

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