Putin adviser says Kyoto ’smoke screen’
“Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda,” he said. “Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.” — Andrei Illarionov, Financial Times
A Putin adviser likens Kyoto ’smoke screen’ to Soviet bureaucratic monster.
“The Kyoto protocol requires a supranational bureaucratic monster in charge of rationing emissions and, therefore, economic activities,” he said in the Financial Times piece. “The Kyotoist system of quota allocation, mandatory restrictions and harsh penalties will be a sort of international Gosplan, a system to rival the former Soviet Union’s.”
Duh.Kyoto isn’t about the climate but about controlling the economic engines of those nations under Kyoto’s thumb. And the economic damage is already being seen in those nations already volunarily following Kyoto.
Kyoto’s followers already are paying a heavy price, he says, noting that since 1997, slower emissions growth in 17 pro-Kyoto, high-income countries coincided with slower growth in gross domestic product in comparison to non-Kyoto nations such as the U.S., Australia and South Korea.
For more info on where Kyoto would take us head over to CEI’s Environmental section.