Climate Justice
Filed Under (Asshattery, Global Warming) by Don C on 25-06-2008
Former Secretary General of UN Kofi Anan:
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for ‘climate justice’, saying that it was polluters who should pay for the effects of climate change, and not the poorest and most vulnerable.
What an idiot like Kofi doesn’t understand is that the poorest countries are the worst polluters and that the poorest polluters are benefactors of the richest polluters. Americans cause more pollution because we make and export products that improve the daily lives of the poorest countries. Products like corn and the people willing to go over and pour it down their starving gullets.
The poorest countries must be held accountable for their fair share of pollution whether they produce it directly or indirectly through consumption. As a matter of fact, the poorest countries should have to pay extra if they are consuming donated products because there was no monetary offset on the rich producer’s side of the economic equation.
Why should a rich producer pay energy taxes on something that was given away to the poor polluters? In other words, who would willingly pay high taxes on a cost? The answer: many will not. Only the best of the best of the best philanthropist would do that. One who thinks taxes are good no matter what. How many of those are there out there I wonder.
Only someone who thinks the largess that flows from rich nations to poor nations is an unshirkable obligation instead of voluntary charity could think in such a way as Kofi and the rest of his one world ilk.
