the dirty duo...
According to the ABC's 7.30 Report (tonight):
The U.S., whilst having only 4.6% of the world's population, produces 25% of the world's carbon emissions.
Australia produces more carbon dioxide emissions per capita than any other nation on earth.
We make such a lovely couple...
The U.S., whilst having only 4.6% of the world's population, produces 25% of the world's carbon emissions.
Australia produces more carbon dioxide emissions per capita than any other nation on earth.
We make such a lovely couple...
posted by The Editor at
8:13 PM
6 Comments:
Yeshua the Nazirene would be disgusted.
And I heard on the radio this morning that Japan has 78% of the world's incinerators, as incineration is their preferred method of garbage disposal. Noice.
I wish I knew how to respond you all of your comments, but I don't. I do thank you for commenting though.
Oh, there is one thing... BigBob!!! Good to see you around here again!
Just wait until the Chinese get off their bicycles, embrace "capitalism", and start buying motor vehicles .. coff ..coff.
I don't know what the black smoke is that belches from the mower I drive, but I'm guessing it's responsible for about half the air pollution over mainland Australia. Terribly sorry, world citizens.
Some commenters here seem to be more interested in shifting our gaze away from what we are doing. I think that's deflection.
Japan? Japan is busting its gut (compared to us) to clean up it's act. They didn't just host Kyoto, they signed up for it!
China? India? Yeah, right! Are you aware that a lot of their pollution is because we, in tightening up our environmental laws in order to clean up our rivers and skies, have made it cheaper and easier for GlobalCorp to shift their dirty operations to these countries rather than trying to find cleaner (and more expensive) ways of doing it back home? First we take the NIMBY posture, then we bitch about where the filth we've evicted has gone to. We go for the cheaper products, then we bitch about GlobalCorp moving to places where it's cheaper (often because the process is dirtier) to produce the cheaper products we demand.
Don't blame India or China, guys. Blame globalised consumerism. In other words, to a large extent, we are to blame. And anyway, how can we scold those countries when we so blatantly sidestep our own environmental obligations? Do you really think they wouldn't fall about chortling at our breathtaking hypocrisy?
No, I don't think we'd be allowed to get away with such attempts at disingenuous deflection. Nor should we.
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