[Dottie]

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Originally Posted by Luis Antonio We cant allow developing countries *coughBrazilcough* to grow polluting, but will those countries be able to grow without generating extra pollution at first? What do you think about US's position of never signing a treaty but creating his own rules, always indulging its internal industries? Opinion? Rants? Mild spam on topic?

I think you can look at it in a different way, sure there is a cost associated with moving to cleaner power sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and so forth, but while poorer nations may not be able to afford this the industry that does the most polluting is the same in the rich and the poor world, and they have the money.

There might be some costs for the nations as well, and principally I think they should be covered by richer nations.

The fact that the industry is multinational creates the need for international coordinated action imo. As long as some important nations refuses to participate it gets a lot more expensive for the nations that does, and therefore they will be much more reluctant to go far in limiting pollution.