The economic case for tackling global warming is misleading. Economic growth has taken a paradigm shift compared to the older times. Decades back, it was meeting the basic needs of the people but now it is nothing but “adding on to the luxury”. So in today’s sense, economic growth has no end. In the case of America , It would be very easy to understand what Obama meant by economic growth. It is nothing but adding to their luxuries further at the expense of the life of the planet we live in. Climate change can be tackled with a minimal impact on economic growth. The planet can be saved by adopting a development program which is environment friendly and which addresses the basic needs of its people. For example, a considerable amount of the world energy needs can be met by intelligent harnessing of renewable energy sources .What we need is collaboration and cooperation between countries in technology as well as manpower .Being tied to growth becomes an evil when it is at the expense of virtue. The need of the hour is a development agenda which is not only utilitarian but also virtuous in nature. sreenivas
--- On Wed, 18/11/09, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> wrote: From: Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> Subject: [GreenYouth] Developed Countries Should Pay Back The Carbon Debt- ( CLIMATE RAGE- Article by Naomi Klein ) To: Date: Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, 8:20 AM http://www.countercurrents.org/klein171109.htm "..In the past, President Obama has recognized the principle on which climate debt rests. "Yes, the developed nations that caused much of the damage to our climate over the last century still have a responsibility to lead," he acknowledged in his September speech at the United Nations. "We have a responsibility to provide the financial and technical assistance needed to help these [developing] nations adapt to the impacts of climate change and pursue low-carbon development." Yet as Copenhagen draws near, the U.S. negotiating position appears to be to pretend that 200 years of over-emissions never happened. Todd Stern, the chief U.S. climate negotiator, has scoffed at a Chinese and African proposal that developed countries pay as much as $400 billion a year in climate financing as "wildly unrealistic" and "untethered to reality." Yet he put no alternative number on the table — unlike the European Union, which has offered to kick in up to $22 billion. U.S. negotiators have even suggested that countries could fund climate debt by holding periodic "pledge parties," making it clear that they see covering the costs of climate change as a matter of whimsy, not duty..." -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com Yahoo! India has a new look. Take a sneak peek http://in.yahoo.com/trynew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
