Climate change failure: The international finger-pointing continues

Posted by at Jul 11th, 2008 in Climate Change

Filed under: News , Polit-eco , Climate Change Following the G8 summit this week and the feel-good declaration that member nations will, or should, or could, or will certainly consider reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 of emissions , and eliminating half of that isn’t going to unmelt any glaciers.
On the other hand, up-and-comers like China and India observe that the the US, Canada, and Western Europe have much higher per capita emissions than the rest of the planet ( the consequence of a relatively luxurious lifestyle), and are much better equipped economically to do what’s necessary to fight climate change. Also fair points.
In a nutshell, the G8 is saying “we’re not going to risk our standard of living to fight climate change” while the rest of the world replies “once we reach your standard of living, we’ll be happy to do our part.” Solutions, anyone? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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Climate change failure: The international finger-pointing continues

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