The production road is the road less travelled. It will only be travelled if all nations act simultaneously. The consumption road is navigable even if - as is realistic - they don’t.
If they only allow the production road, the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol approaches fail, measured against their own objectives.
Why should such international agreements preclude options more likely to get us to the same end point?
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It’s a choice. If nations choose a better path to the same end, more progress is made than if they don’t.
I’m surprised there’s no coalition between business, unions and environmental groups in support of a consumption-based policy model. The failure of the alternative is obvious.
To adapt a famous Keynesian statement: “Given the evident failure of the production model, and the merits of the consumption model, why haven’t you changed your minds?”
Putting it in more Australian terms to these groups: “Where the bloody hell are you?”
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