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[templar944]

Dear all,
   As most of you know I read the newspaper a lot. Or rather I read the online news a lot. I tend to read the BBC and New York Times sites daily. So I was really surprised a few days ago with the environmental report issued by a promient economist in the UK. It got huge coverage in the BBC and several other international papers and sites

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[kusoninja]

Haven't exactly read up on the report itself as I've been increasingly spending more time reading the Economist than the web news sites and I think they too mildly glossed on the situation. In any case, it does not surprise me the numbers that the report estimate in terms of poverty and other...darker things.

The problem perhaps is the idea that to curb China and the rest of the rising stars of the developing world from maximum growth (ie. forcing environmental standards that would most likely increase costs and get angry shouts of "attacks against sovereignty") is a bad idea. So...we do nothing. The world body does nothing. The world keeps on pollutin'. A shame really.

With the recent trend of falling gas prices, one might even wonder if the corporations are doing this to knock out the feasibility of alternative energy solutions and such as these have steadily gained importance as the price differences between alternate fuels/energy have changed with fossil fuels. Tricky tricky. Excuse the excessive run-ons.

A good point

[templar944]

Good point my man. China will definately drop the whole "attack against sovereignty" thing. I honestly believe that Europe will do something but I think it will just be them. The US won't (unless we get a totally different leadership). And India and China definately won't. Since they won't you lack the ability to get any other country to do well anything other then token improvements.