Missing the Gain But Joining the Pain
Since the First World already mucked up the climate, animal nature dictates that developing economies are piqued at having to clean up.
Since the industrial revolution, profits from the exploitation of fossil energy — coal, oil and natural gas — have not been equally distributed. America, Europe and Japan got rich off of oil and coal; now China, India and much of the rest of the developing world are attempting to do the same thing. If they succeed, climate scientists say, it will mean environmental catastrophe.
This progression has created a situation in which any solution to ...
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