For my own part, although I dislike to say aught that may grate upon tender
associations, I must frankly confess that even though these
attributes were faultlessly deduced, I can not conceive of its being of the
smallest consequence to us religiously that any one of them should be true.
For instance, if responsibility for reducing GHG emissions is allocated in part on historic emissions, the largest portion of historic responsibility has to be
attributed to the United States with 25.6 % of historic emissions, followed by the 15 European Union Countries at 15.9 %, OPEC countries at 7.4 %, Russia at 7.3 %, China at 6.4 %, Brazil at 5.2 %, the 76 countries of AOSIS (
Association of
Small Island States) and the LDC (Least Developed Countries) at 4.1 %, Japan at 2.8 %, and finally India with next to no responsibility at 0.3 %.