Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-16-Speech-1-174"
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"Mr President, Mr Dimas, you have the most important task of all the Commissioners. If it is you that fail, the Commission too fails. You are Mr Barroso’s guide. It is time we realised that it is climate chaos we are facing. There is no negotiating with Mother Earth. We are guests in her house and we must follow her rules. That is why we must quickly limit emissions.
We must introduce carbon dioxide charges on products from countries that do not observe the Kyoto Agreement. It would create pressure for better politics in the United States and Australia. Countries that do not accept responsibility for the climate should not be able to be parasitic upon our earth. Current economic policy and trade policy have failed, and they create climate chaos and devastation instead of well-being and prosperity.
Sorting this out is a matter of urgency. We need trade rules that observe the rules of the earth rather than those of short-sighted lobbyists. Legal proceedings cannot be taken against climate chaos. We need aviation taxes, carbon dioxide charges on imports, better rules governing emissions from cars, better transport policy and better trade policy. Only then can we take care of our earth."@en1
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