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Guilty! Rich Nations Slammed At Climate Change Court


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Daphna
- 51 days ago - treehugger.com
Thai and Bangladeshi farmers, a Nepalese mountain climber, a Filipino fisherman and an Indonesian women's advocate testified against developed countries in a trial yesterday that found the wealthiest nations responsible for the damages caused by global wa
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Ralph Sutton (48)
Sunday October 18, 2009, 3:02 pm
Who are they kidding? The US is the least wealthiest country in the world. Our debt clock went into overload last year and that was before the economic collapse. Now we can't even sell US Treasury Notes to the suckers that we once conned into buying them. China and Saudi Arabia both refused to enter bids at last week's Treasury auction. I don't know where they got the figure of billions, but the estimate I saw for the proposed Copenhagen summit agreement was over 1.5 Trillion. This hoax is going to end up sending the entire world into an economic disaster. Maybe we could trick the Climate Change Court into accepting a few billion of our worthless Treasury Notes.
 

mary f. (76)
Monday October 19, 2009, 3:57 am
thanks daphna
 

Martha A. (8)
Monday October 19, 2009, 1:38 pm
supposedly obama is going to a conference in copehagen, dec 7-12, where he will sign away the nations's sovereignity, by signing the treaty for a world govt. We are supposed to pay huge carbon taxes, because of al gores carbon tax hoax and is a way to transfer wealth from united states to third world countries. REagan wouldnt sign the bill but im sure Obama will.
 

Mary Donnelly (9)
Monday October 19, 2009, 2:50 pm
Thanks Daphna

Ralp Sutton

The USA is the wealthiest country on our planet; its problem is its debt which needs to be reduced in an organised progressive way.

Everybody

The poorer countries on our planet are being progressively hit by climate change, and most other things, because they do not have the efficiently organised resources to deal with that change regardless of what/who caused it.

e.g.

1 when rich people have their assets/income reduced by one third they can still survive well; people existing on $US2 a day do not have such flexibility.
2 when sea water, wars, development, etc. start ruining their soil, air, and water, the people in poorer countries can do little about it;
3 when the powers that be deny that there is a problem, or bicker over who is to blame for it, the problem grows.

I hope those going to Copenhagen do something constructive about climate change, and that they all realise there are costs involved in dealing with it. Those costs should be equitably distributed.
 

Vi S. (2)
Monday October 19, 2009, 2:52 pm
Wait, China is blaming the United States for going overboard on carbon emissions? A fair accusation, but CHINA???
 

Daniel Barker (35)
Monday October 19, 2009, 7:40 pm
What is the answer? America especially is dependent on petroleum for transportation. One possibility to end that madness are electric vheicles, which still use coal as source of power, but it is a step in the right direction.

Residential electricity - solar and wind within a few years if new technologies pan out.

If you have any solutions no more coal, petroleum or gas I'm all ears.
 
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