The move is to save $14 billion in fines and to pursue vast resources in oil sands Kyoto would curtail.
The USA is the largest and most prominent nation in the world to have never ratified the Kyoto treaties.
Canada is the first nation to formally renounce the protocol. Japan and Russia will not renew at the end of 2012.
Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent noted 'To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada.'
Greenpeace Canada spokesman Mike Hudema complains that the conservative Harper government 'has imposed a death sentence on many of the world's most vulnerable populations by pulling out of Kyoto'
In Durban, South Africa this week 200 countries and Barbara Boxer from California sat brewing up a replacement for Kyoto to go into effect in 2015. Since the USA, Canada, Japan and Russia are out, why bother.
Had science supported the worlds left-wingers on this issue, then destroying the world's economy might be justified, but since there is no climate Armageddon, why persist in the wipe-out? Don't ask, the mind of a liberal is incomprehensible to sensible people.
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