Friedman's Column, Kyoto Protocol, and the Slayers of the African Dream

Friedman's Column, Kyoto Protocol, and the Slayers of the African Dream
It is a long title, but one that is very telling over what I am going to talk about. In a recent column, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times mentioned the recent growths in Dalian, China and Doha, Qatar. In the column, he commented that he was feeling torn about the fact that the people of Doha where rising themselves out of poverty via "Earth Expensive" energy technology. And that is where I launch from.

Because the thing is, that the infamous Kyoto would have prevented that growth and modernization in Doha by disallowing the cost-effective methods currently being used in the cultivation of civilization and modernization.

And yet, the Champions of Kyoto, almost all them safely within the Prior Category, have ignored the pleadings of the African Economists who have done the studies and know, first hand the damage that will be done to them if these limits are placed on them.

But first, the City of Dalian, China was mentioned, well, lets look at the current Chinese Output of CO2. While the United States is currently leading in CO2 production, China, land of the brown sky, is going to surpass us by the end of the decade.

That is highly signifigant, when you consider that neither China nor India has signed onto Kyoto.

Now, Africa. I have levelled accusations against the authors of Kyoto before, and it is time to pull out the canister rounds. I will be airing as many complaints as I can via my
blog's main cannon, hence the title, canister.

Now, one of the main accusations is that of the Death of the African Dream. For those of you not in the know, the African Dream is the current path being embarked upon by the
African Union to modernize the continent and provide stable homes for the people there. However, the Kyoto Protocol would negate that, and provide huge costs that could be considered dissuasive to development.

Interesting. On top of that, Lake Chad is not evaporating, it is sinking. For those of you have not heard, currently, Lake Chad is shrinking, but at the same time, grasses are expanding out ward in what is called, undesertification, or Reverse Desertification. That is right, for the first time since it was the Tapith Sea, the Sahara Desert is shrinking.

At the same time, The largest environmental damage is being caused by the Forestry methods in use by the people of Central Africa. As opposed to the current methods of either Circular or Selective Harvesting being done in the Western World, the Forestry methods being used in Central Africa can best be described as clear cutting.

In fact, this clear cutting is resulting in the drying of the atmosphere across the climate, causing the Snows of Kilamanjaro to disappear, and the Congo River to diminish.