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Should the UN be involved in mediating all forms of energy technology transfers? or only nuclear?

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What would this be from China's perspective?

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  1. The UN IS already involved in this via the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) which co-finance clean energy projects. One of the way to demonstrate a project is valid (additional) is to show that it would not have happened without carbon credits because the technology implementation would otherwise not happen (due to barriers).

    Nuclear technology is supervised by the UN and the state of the art reactors are actually built in China as they are the latest built in the world


  2. I cant speak for other countries, but the UN has NO AUTHORITY over the US Constitution. If some other country will let UN law supersede their own, let them be slaves.

    Chinas perspective would be yes in return for getting higher on the world trade ladder.

    Where the UN has little to offer fully developed nations such as USA, it has allot to offer 3rd world countries with slave labor & a few technologically advanced special administrative regions ,such as china.

  3. The UN is such c**p. They couldn't even control a raid of ants if their lives depended on it. Plus, the UN is based in the US, so how just is the UN if the president gets to pick who is in charge. They shouldn't be allowed to do anything at all. Plus, how do they expect for the US and Iran problems to be solved if president Bush purposely avoids president Ahmadinejad while they are both their. Government in any country is screwed up.

  4. China is the model for the world under an NWO one world government. This clip from ENDGAME details the NWO plans for their eugenics program and the enslavement of mankind.

    If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

    Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

    Poverty For 'Those People'

    We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels. -- Carl Amery

    Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby -- Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

    To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem -- Lamont Cole

    If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered -- Gar Smith -- editor of the Earth Island Institute's online magazine The Edge

    The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them. -- Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

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    The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

    The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

    I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

    In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

    Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

    This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

    There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

  5. The less the UN is involved the better I feel. They can't manage a good bowel movement why would anyone expect them to manage anything any more complicated.

  6. The main concern that the UN has with technology transfers of the nuclear kind is its dual-use ability to be harnessed as a nuclear weapon.  From any perspective, there isn't much a need for the UN to mediate any other type of energy technology, and I am sure OPEC would loathe the idea of them getting involved with oil (althought that could benefit the US).  From Chinese, you really wouldnt want any mediation.  China is open for technology transfer, mainly because most of the transferring would be pouring into China instead of coming out.  They probably wouldn't mind the UN and IAEA butting out of the nuclear energy transfer as well.

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