It seems fair to me that China should be allowed to pull itself up to our standards of lavish life before they are forced to curtail their carbon emissions. India too.
Su Wei, a top climate expert for China’s government attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference, said the job belongs to the wealthy. He said it was unfair to ask developing nations to accept binding emissions cuts and other restrictions being pushed for already industrialized states.
He said the United States and its fellow industrial nations have long spewed greenhouse gases into the atmosphere while newly emerging economies have done so for only a few decades.
I like this:
The United States was ranked No. 55 because it opposes mandatory cuts in emissions and argues that technology, private investment and economic growth will save the planet from global warming.
Because if the government doesn’t put overly burdensome and therefore unenforceable regulations in place, you just aren’t trying. Waving your collective hands about is what’s really important.
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