This is in response to http://www.startribune.com/nation/84252087.html?page=1&c=y, an article about the $10 Billion/yr promised to 3rd world countries to counteract the effects of global warming.
How can the United Nations even be taken seriously anymore? While the original intentions of the organization were good, it has since become dominated by 3rd world countries who are just out to "get their's." The meetings are dominated by poor countries looking to leech money from the 5 or 6 countries that drive the world economy. The logic, the evidence, that spurred this monetary pledge is bunk, as admitted by the scientists behind the report itself. So why are larger countries insisting upon donating billions and billions of dollars to 3rd world countries? Are we responsible for the hardships that they might incurr from climate change, just because we consume larger amounts of fossil fuels? If industrial nations are to be held responsible for their larger amounts of fossil fuel consumption, shouldn't third world countries be held responsible for the greenhouse gases emitted by natural causes such as volcanoes? More importantly, don't industrial countries already take more aggressive approaches to greenhouse gas prevention than their third world counterparts? Agriculture and livestock are large sources of revenue in third world countries, and don't face nearly as many restrictions as those industries do in the United States.
The article should focus on the more important part of this story, the fact that the UN is giving them any money at all.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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