Japan sticks with climate solution that critics say is far from clean – The Japan Times

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1. Might as well set realistic goals that will allow the country to improve environmentally while being competitive with other economies that are also hardly green.
   It’s more dangerous to make promises just to appease a certain group and not be able to attain it

2. Ol’ tax raising glasses dick head is currently on his 438th meeting with his other group of old farts designing his ‘super upgrade climate tax.’
   Taxes include the fees for the big ‘NO GIRLZ ALLOWED’ sign above the meeting room.

3. We spent the summer “atsui desu ne”ing a record greenhouse gas- and el nino-driven heat wave. Leave it to the LDP to try and use that as justification for burning coal even longer.

4. Unless the top polluters in the world are on board, this will not make a difference.

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