Bananaistan wrote:"Opposed. The General Fund is not a bottomless pit.
"Hmm. How do you know of this? Have you visited the General Accounting Office to see whether the General Fund indeed has a bottom? Believe me, I don't know how billions of dollars originating from thousands of member nations can be kept in a pit that does indeed have a bottom! I'll presume that the General Fund is indeed a bottomless pit, unless the gnomes announce the General Fund running out. Or something."
"Furthermore, the definition seems incredibly broad and open ended. Second hand smoke, for example, would fall within it.
"Does the new definition, which clarifies that the health danger must be 'severe', address this? However, we believe that something such as second hand smoke would easily fit under the Section 7 exemption anyway."
In section 3, the term "natural environment" is used and the carrying etc of toxic materials in such a thing is banned. What exactly is a natural environment and does mean that the transportation of certain materials from their source, eg a mine perhaps, to some other location where it might be processed, perhaps a factory, is effectively banned?"
"A factory is artificial, which is the complete opposite of 'natural'. Therefore, it would seem rather unlikely that a factory be considered the 'natural environment'."
~Alexander Nicholas Saverchenko-Colleti,
World Assembly Ambassador,
The Empire of The Ice States