Rich and poor, the new study points out, live in every nation, and the rich — wherever they live — pound a much greater carbon footprint than the poor. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Preventing “runaway global warming,” as the Equality Trust warns, simply won’t be possible “without a sense of shared participation in a common cause.” If we did ... More »
A good starting point for thinking about how and where to get started in reducing climate change emissions.
We are far beyond 'fair'. Noblise oblige. The western world has a responsibility stemming from her long disproportional use of the world's resources, (including the resources of the third world), to both set an example and to work out the technology for being prosperous while reducing green house gasses. The western world has the wealth to work out these systems which will then be taken up by the rest of the world. Fair is going to push us over the edge.
The strategy sounds reasonable. And it neatly bypasses the stupid argument of "I don't need to clean up my mess because your grandfather didn't clean up his mess!" that the 3rd World countries like to use.
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