WA General Assembly Vote: "Repeal 'Reducing Automobile Emissions'"

[Myroria]

Repeal 'Reducing Automobile Emissions'

Category: Repeal

Resolution: GA# 257

Proposed by: The Dark Star Republic

Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #257: Reducing Automobile Emissions (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: Automotive) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.[/b]

Argument: The World Assembly,

Vexed that WA Resolution #257, "Reducing Automobile Emissions", is not thoughtfully considered and does not show appropriate regard for the interrelated nature of human, economic and environmental factors,

Regarding the Resolution's requirement that "all member nations ... take any and all economically viable measures to reduce automobile emissions" to be crass, clunky, and about as subtle as a gynaecologist in a gas mask,

Observing that this harsh mandate takes no account:

 - of whether any environmental or other gain from such reductions is balanced by their cost even if they meet the nebulous standard of being economically viable,

 - of the difficulty of even determining what constitutes economic viability given the lack of context the Resolution provides,

 - of measures that are technically economically viable but that violate civil rights, pose significant non-economic viability issues, or are otherwise environmentally harmful,

 - of the cost-benefit analysis of offsetting higher automobile emissions with other more consequential environmental actions,

 - of whether these reductions actually meet the "recommendations" the Resolution empowers the IAEC to create,

 - or in fact, of anything whatsoever other than the sole monomaniacal goal of reducing automobile emissions,

Opining that the general benefits of international law to reduce automobile emissions are not sufficient to atone for these severe legislative defects:

Mandates the repeal of WA Resolution #257, "Reducing Automobile Emissions".

Don't forget to cast your own vote!

[Allama]

Regarding the Resolution's requirement that "all member nations ... take any and all economically viable measures to reduce automobile emissions" to be crass, clunky, and about as subtle as a gynaecologist in a gas mask

Opining that the general benefits of international law to reduce automobile emissions are not sufficient to atone for these severe legislative defects

bwahahaha FUCK NO

[Myroria]

Oh my god they seriously said that.

How did this get quorum?

[Allama]

Beats me! Is The Dark Star Republic really popular or summat?

[Delfos]

Beats me! Is The Dark Star Republic really popular or summat?

or people don't read or care about WA?

[Allama]

If folks don't care about WA enough to read proposed repeals, I imagine they wouldn't be looking at/supporting them in the first place.

I know I sure as hell don't bother. Like most, I only read the proposals that make it to a vote.

[Lindisfarne]

Hi all,
Since I don't know what is beeing repealed, I'd like to read the original piece of legislation. Can it be found somewhere or be posted here on our forum?
  forever!
/L

[Myroria]

The resolution is linked in the original post, in the short section before the main body labeled "Resolution:" in italics

[Lindisfarne]

The resolution is linked in the original post, in the short section before the main body labeled "Resolution:" in italics

Thank you Myoria, i missed that.

There are grave deficiencies in the original resolution.

§1: section "emissions"; established by whom?; harmful in what way?; Persons OR the natural environment - that means that if an emission is harmful to only one obscure unimportant bacterium and nothing else, the emission will be considered harmful. for some bacteria oxygen is poisonous. Thus oxygen becomes a harmful emission.

§2: section i; the passage "all economically viable measures" means any state can decide an economic loss of only one Sol makes a measure non-viable.

§3: Adapting the standards does not mean the member states have to report anything or even collect any data.

§§ 4 & 5: Encouraging States is a nice thought but means absolutley nothing.

In short a piece of tothless legislation that looks to me like something thats been put together so it looks like the WA is doing something about the envioronment while no one is affected by it.

These type of legisltion i find meaningless and we will do better without it. Perhaps it is meant as some sort of encouragement to those who wants to press on with further legislation? I will vote abstain on this, as removing it is as pointless as the passing of the resolution in the first place.

Linda