Despite their lack of culpability, everyone recognizes they are the most vulnerable countries, and Oxfam estimates that climate change adaptation is costing
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Dec 5, 2007
Poor Countries Demand Climate Change Adaptation Tech
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Despite their lack of culpability, everyone recognizes they are the most vulnerable countries, and Oxfam estimates that climate change adaptation is costing...
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Despite their lack of culpability, everyone recognizes they are the most vulnerable countries, and Oxfam estimates that climate change adaptation is costing
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I am on the same wavelength as most of the content of this article.
The word "demand" in the title though... The poor countries in the world, even collectively, have very little real power to demand anything of the governments of the affluent nations.
Those demands are desperate pleadings, and they are likely to be responded to in about the same fashion as we responded to the Katrina Disaster; Too little, too late, and with monumental graft and corruption every step of the way. And that was within our own borders, not in some distant alien land filled with strange, enigmatic cultures who are often at great odds with our positions. Some of this is because they have been conditioned, propagandized against the west.
Our policies do not follow any sort of cohesive logic. The goals of Kyoto are not perfectly reasoned out. They need a considerable amount of fine tuning, and even then, may not prevent the cataclysmic events which are more and more appearing on the horizon.
Our singular refusal to recognize Kyoto is out of our own purely nationalistic concern about our short-term economic conditions.
Patriotic platitudes of pusilanimous politicians will not solve the problem.
We are bankrupting the nation with endless war. War produces more pollution than ANY other human activity.
It is no longer a viable option. Do the math.
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