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You can see their point. China and India account for 10 percent and 3 percent, respectively, of the man-made greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere, compared with 75 percent for the developed world (according to data compiled by the World Resources Institute). So why, they ask, should they cut their emissions of carbon dioxide? In July, an Indian official bluntly told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that his country (the world's fifth-leading greenhouse-gas emitter) would not accept emissions cuts as part of a global climate treaty. China, now the world's No. 1 carbon emitter, has been less belligerently recalcitrant, but in a policy statement demands that developed countries "take responsibility for their historical cumulative emissions and current high per capita emissions to … substantially reduce their emissions" while developing countries pursue "economic development." Read: no emissions cuts here.
Full Article -> Sharon Begley
China and India Will Pay
Though others started global warming.
Published Aug 27, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
Newsweek Magazine
It is interesting to note that every country that is well developed always cause problems with the environment. First the US was accused of being the country that emitted more greenhouse gases. During the history we had seen many countries that fight against this kind of problems, but economically spiking the most developed countries give more money against this problem, but at the same time they are the ones that increase it.
