left photo: Mats Lindh; right photo: Nir Nussbaum
Speaking at a conference in Delhi, India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh urged Western nations to leave population out of climate talks, The Guardian reports. Ramesh said, 'Influential American think tanks are asking why should we reward profligate reproduction behavior' in the developing world. Then Ramesh really laid out bare the gap between rich and poor nations in the w...Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Roving Giraffe - says this is as true as l said on our business blog at http://bit.ly/ace_wws29 when l wrote about the cash for clunkers deal fuelling peoples need for more cars and damaging the environment. I see it takes a developing country to tell us the same. But the west has other ideas and wants to include population statistics into the equation and eventually the blame given their way will end up being the poor peoples fault and not the west`s greed. G
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