An Inconvenient Truth

[Jester]

At any rate there is no reason the industrialized countries can reasonably be expected to adhere to standards that China and India refuse to sign on to.

The argument is what, then? Why bother, the environment is definitely going to hell, so let's live it up in the meantime?

Everyone should do better. If we don't, with our wealth, how can they be expected to, with hundreds of millions of people clamouring for a decent wage and a colour TV?

And, in any case, what gives us the right to shirk our environmental obligations, regardless of what happens elsewhere? If other countries are doing poorly, then it is up to us to do even more, not less.

-Jester