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NEWS: Ad Parodies Japan on Climate Change with Spirited Away

Mikuru wrote:

Citation needed.

Can't you read!? He heard about it from Glenn Beck. Obviously it requires no further support.

Sadly, their anger about who caused the death of Kyoto is woefully misplaced. Japan isn’t opposing an extension of the protocol because it doesn’t believe in reducing carbon emissions. It’s opposing the extension because the Kyoto Protocol is useless in its current form:

An extension of the Kyoto Protocol “does not serve our national interest nor does it rescue the globe from global warming,” foreign ministry official Shinsuke Sugiyama told reporters.

“Some criticized us as trying to destroy negotiations,” he said. “But I believe by the end our position has been better understood by the parties concerned and the people concerned, even if not 100 percent agreed.”

Japan argues that the treaty named after its ancient capital is unfair because it does not include 70 percent of the world’s emissions, with top polluters China and the United States absent.

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Keeping the Protocol alive in its current form achieves nothing. The world’s top carbon emitters absolutely refuse to become members, and any cuts Japan and other countries agree to within the Kyoto system will meaninglessly small compared to the huge increases that will come out of countries like China.

Why waste money on ads that rip on Japan for wanting to replace the broken Kyoto system with a better agreement? If NGO’s believe something needs to be done about carbon emissions, they should work on getting a system in place that would requiring cuts from everyone, especially top emitters like China, the United States, India, and Brazil.