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Opinion:Protecting the planet is a long term goal. Politics is about short term goals, such as minimising costs of any decisions taken, at least within the electoral cycle, and therefore being popular with electors. They are incompatible in their goals and politics usually wins out over altruism. The result of this is that politicians made vague, minimal commitments at Kyoto. It is future politicians who will wear the opprobrium if the world economies collapse under the weight of climate change.
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Q: Why might some countries be opposed to the Kyoto Protocol?
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