An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Moonbat of India?
Rich must reduce emissions for poor to develop
Rich countries like the United States must reduce their carbon footprint to support poor nations who have no choice but to increase their emissions if they are to lift themselves out of poverty, a leading environmentalist said.
Say whut?
“Climate change is directly linked to economic growth,” Sunita Narain, an environmentalist who has taken on the government on issues from air pollution to waste management, told Reuters ahead of the Reuters Environment Summit next week.
Umm….no, climate change is directly linked to……THE CLIMATE!
“With climate change, we are looking at sharing the resources of the world and we are looking at bringing some justice in the way they are distributed — so the rich world has to reduce its emissions so that the poor world can increase theirs.”
Is this one of those “steal from the rich to give to the poor” scenarios? The west has to give it emissions to the poorer country? Sorry, where is the logic?
India, whose economy has grown annually by 8 to 9 percent in recent years, contributes around 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions as its consumption of fossil fuels gathers pace.
New Delhi says it must use more energy to lift its population out of poverty, something rich nations — which have burnt fossil fuels unhindered for a century — should understand.
Again…..say whut?
But the United States, which is one of the biggest polluters in the world, says it will not commit to emission targets until India and China do.
We already have too many regulations in place. All those boutique blends of gas that cause even more pollution, ethanol, which causes even MORE. Where does it end? It’s not our fault if third world countries have too many people, won’t pick up after themselves, and then whine that we aren’t doing enough to help them.
Narain, who heads the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, said the U.S. argument was “a petty game being played by petty politicians”.
“I think there is a lack of morality in the western world whose use of fossil fuels and emissions far outstrips a country like India or even China,” said Narain, who is known for her outspokenness.
I’ll go along with a ‘lack of morality’, but that has more to do with the lack of G-d in our society than fossil fuels.
Narain — who last year fought against major soft drinks manufacturers Pepsi and Coca-Cola accusing them of selling pesticide-contaminated drinks — said India had to set a responsible development agenda by keeping emissions low.
Yeah, I can see Pepsi and Coke working real hard to to ADD pesticides. If a company kills off consumers, who is going to buy their product?
Narain said India had failed to put its point across to the international community and needed to be more vocal.
“My biggest annoyance is that my own political leaders are not coming up to the challenge,” she said.
“They are not telling the West that our floods today are because of climate change, ‘our droughts are increasingly because of variable rainfall, our glaciers are melting and that we are going to send you the bill’.”
Seems to me that India has been having floods long before the West was…..well, the West. Blaming developed countries for the shortfalls of her own government is pretty pathetic.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
