This seems to be why we focus on feel-good approaches like the Kyoto Protocol, whose fundamental problem has always been that it is simultaneously impossibly ambitious, environmentally inconsequential, and inordinately expensive. It required such big reductions that only few countries could live up to it.
这似乎就是我们专注于像《京都议定书》这一类的让自我感觉良好的方式的原因。它的根本问题从来就是既好高骛远，又不符合环境逻辑，还代价不菲。它所要求的减排量是如此之高，以至于只有寥寥数国可以做得到。