cisco said...
The only ones worse than you are those "nouvo riche" Arabs in Dubai and Qatar but we can't mention them or we will be called anti muslimist.
Yes, they're there in the chart... Saudi at around 17, Kuwait at around 30 and Qatar and the AUE at around a whopping 35. Look closely.
From which we get Professor Barry Brook, the chair of climate change at the University of Adelaide saying:
"... it's a bit of a political game like that. Australia has about five times the per capita emissions of China for instance but China produces over 20 times the carbon emissions of Australia because China has such a huge population," he said.
"So you can play around with these numbers all you want but ultimately what matters is the total global carbon budget and unless humanity as a whole can find solutions to that problem, then all of that petty bickering amongst nations about who's more or less responsible isn't really going to be very helpful."
We'd get through this issue far quicker if the nations would stop politicking. Which is why the notion that the Copenhagen conference is some kind of plot from the world's governments is laughable. Those guys have trouble agreeing where in the room they should sit, never mind colluding on some secret plan to take over the world.
Which is precisely why I said a world government is bloody good idea... if there were ONE government, they'd get on with it instead of bickering, arguing and posturing.
