Saturday - December 08, 2007

More Insanity from Bali: Third World Pollution Doesn't Count 

The Bali conference, if it wasn't so dangerous to American interests, could actually be funny. Today's belly laugh comes from China and other third world nations who argue the west has polluted longer, therefore they shouldn't be limited by any new pollution controls.

For instance, China, with an economy that is 5 times smaller than that of the U.S., now pollutes slightly more than the world's source of all things evil. The leftist, to confuse the issue, describe pollution per person. So of course, a nation like China always claims, that per person, they pollute less than the U.S.

Instead, if you look at pollution as related to GDP, you see an entirely different picture. China, with an economy that is 5 times smaller (see this story), now produces as much pollution, if not more than the U.S. So in other words, the U.S. economy is obviously more efficient in terms of pollution as it produces more products than China.

The bottom line, the eco-leftist in the West and the communists in China have something in common in that they want the living standards and the industrial output of the U.S. to decline.

So, I guess another new scientific 'fact' of global warming will be that western pollution is worse than third world pollution.

China, which some believe has surpassed the U.S. as the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, questioned the fairness of binding cuts when its per capita emissions are about one-sixth of America's. It said, too, that it has only been pumping pollutants into the atmosphere for a few decades, whereas the West has done so for hundreds of years.

"China is in the process of industrialization and there is a need for economic growth to meet the basic needs of the people and fight against poverty," said Su Wei, a top climate expert for the government and member of its delegation at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali.

"I just wonder whether it's fair to ask developing countries like China to take on binding targets," Su said Friday. "I think there is much room for the United States to think whether it's possible to change (its) lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to contribute to the protection of the global climate." Read more....

Author: The Machiavellian
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