It's NOT The Science, Stupid
Okay, here's a question I have about the politics of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon credit trading and develped vs developing countries: Who would it really hurt to have everybody under one agreement umbrella?
Because something tells me it would NOT be the poor who would suffer in having to meet a set of global targets on greenhouse gas emissions - even though that is exactly the reasoning being used by the political Center right on over to wherever the Left is (right beside the Center, unfortunately) as to why developing countries deserve their pollution time now to catch up to us over here in the West - developmentwise.
I mean, look at China. Its poor are choking under the weight of pollution while the rich live an insulated existence in air conditioned comfort. And since so many of those people getting rich are actually Westerners getting richer, well, I say it's a crock to pretend that the exemption is for the sake of the poor.
In fact, I can't believe anyone is buying that load of shit in this day and age. We should know better by now. Rich people do not get rich by caring about poor people. They absolutely get rich by caring more about money than any other Gawddamned thing in the entire universe - including life everlasting. Because everybody knows, the meek shall inherit the Earth.
Which, of course, will be uninhabitable on account of, for some bizarre reason, everybody figured the rich, who got rich from development in this part of the world, should now get another kick at the development can in China.
