Via Turthout: Climate Equity: A Lost Cause?

Craig Collin, Truthout: "The message delivered by the poor nations and climate activists who gathered last week in Bolivia is undeniably just: The world desperately needs an effective climate agreement. However, rich countries are primarily responsible for causing this problem and have reaped most of benefits of two centuries of fossil-fueled industrialization. Therefore, they must bear most of the costs of responding to climate change and overcoming the world's addiction to fossil fuels. Only the callous or ethically challenged would dispute this position on moral grounds."

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