Kyoto Protocol Quotes

• It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, People, Historical

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• The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

  Aurelio Peccei

  Real, Men, Ideas

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Issues, Environmental, Global Warming

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• The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

  Jacques Chirac

  Energy, Firsts, Environment

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• The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

  Laurent Fabius

  Withdrawal, Process, Kyoto

  "Anger over Bush energy plan". www.cnn.com. May 18, 2001.

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• The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

  William Nordhaus

  Environmental, Strategy, Economics

  William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

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• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  Hans Blix

  War, Iraq, Issues

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• It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

  Eric Stoltz

  Depressing, Real, War

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• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Taken, Ideas, Perspective

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• The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

  Enric Sala

  Kyoto, Sea, Needs

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• We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

  Goran Persson

  Thinking, Substance, Agree To Disagree

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• When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Long, Leader, Environmental

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• The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Growth, Sound

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• The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

  Al Gore

  Kyoto, Goal, Earth

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• For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

  Jacques Chirac

  Humanity, Acting, Together

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• Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity...The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.

  Michael Meacher

  Country, Cutting, Political

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• We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Rights, Political

  "Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser" by Yuri Zarakhovich, time.com, December 31, 2005.

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• Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple.

  Kary Mullis

  Simple, Salary, Roles

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• The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

  Christopher Flavin

  Kyoto, Challenges, Structure

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• The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto, Gdp

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• The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what’s happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto.

  Ross McKitrick

  Law, Atmosphere, Agendas

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• The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Kyoto, Years, Effort

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• I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Done, Truth Is

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker offered that sort of policy, I would not carry insurance. Instead what my broker offers is a policy that costs a little and pays full compensation in the event of loss. If someone wants to propose that as a policy on global warming, I'm all in favour.

  Ross McKitrick

  Loss, Want, Littles

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• The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk. Fundamentally, we believe that the protocol both will fail to significantly reduce the long-term risks posed by climate change and, in the short run, will seriously impede our ability to meet our energy needs and economic growth.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  Running, Believe, Environmental Health

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