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European leaders agreed for the first time today that the price tag for tackling global warming would amount to €100bn (£89bn) a year by 2020, up to half of which would need to come from taxpayers' money in the developed world.
But mired in wrangling over how to split the European share of the bill among 27 countries and how much Europe collectively should spend, they failed to agree on urgent short-term funding for combating climate change in the developing world.
Of the €100bn Euros ballpark figure, the Europeans said €22bn-€50bn should be public sector money in annual transfers to the developing world by 2020.
Originally posted by beta.services
Dont forget that while the west has been extracting oil and coal from Africa, the vast majority of countries that produce these resources are not allowed to create infrastructure that utilises them. They have been stopped from doing so under the guise of 'global warming.'
Originally posted by Emerald The Paradigm
I say we make a spaceship and get a few million people off this planet before insanity hits 100%.
Originally posted by beta.services
I am not saying that African leaders aren't at fault. Just that they aren't the ones that own the companies extracting the resources.
African countries are being bribed with 'Aid' to not implement the infrastructure.
The point I'm making is that for a long time it has been accepted that they were allowed to produce the resources, just not allowed to use them. It has been a double standard of the worst kind.
Originally posted by beta.services
People from some countries might complain that their tax dollars are being sent elsewhere. But they shouldn't loose sight of the fact that their economies have been propped up by third world detriment for a long time.
Originally posted by praxis
The buck stops with the leaders of those third world countries. Period.
They alone defined the business relationship with foreign companies. If they chose to accept money and favors in lieu of building infrastructure or technology, that's their own fault. They could have changed the equation at any time.
Originally posted by beta.services
You have to understand that when most of those business relationships were originally put in place, most of these countries were run by the french, spanish, dutch or english.
Yes, corruption is rife in these countries. But so is a lack of democracy. Should the people be blamed for the action of their officials? Especially when those actions were lead/coerced by the west?