Thursday, October 25, 2007

Anti-developed countries

However grudgingly one might accept, there is logic in this anti-developed countries debate, that while developed nations had their years of passionate romance philandering away natural resources and emitting as much gas as possible, it seems quite extraordinary for them to ask developing nations to invest in technologies that have the potential to decelerate economic growth. As per the latest data from the Energy Information Administration (for 2004), the US per capita emission is at 20.18 metric tonnes, which stands far ahead of UK’s 9.62, Germany’s 10.46, Japan’s 9.91 and France’s 6.71. Of course one of the so-called environment- friendly nations, Canada, comes pretty close to the US at 18.09. And you can well understand why countries like China with 2.9 and India at 1.09 feel shortchanged when accused of global warming!

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