Climate change debate:-3

So as I said before, even if the industrialized countries are to blame for it, do they have to pay for the sins of the developing nations who may be polluting in the future? It is now a fact that global warming is here to stay and it would be foolish not to accept this. We can reduce it but unless we stop producing things which add to the pollution, this process will continue. The only way now is how to reduce it. We need to start accepting our responsibilities as nations and individuals and try to reduce the effect of harmful pollutants. I know that in the short run, it will hurt everybody in some way or another.

I think that for now the rich industrialized nations should shoulder this burden but the amount of pollutants being sent out by rapidly developing nations should also share this burden and start paying for it in some way.

Now it is impossible to set quotas for how each country should be able to pollute the environment, since there is no international monitoring agency to make sure that the countries don’t cheat. Even if there is one, how and by what measure it will do it and what kind of fines or sanctions the violating nations should face.

It seems like the momentum for the climate change debate is in the United States, Europe and some advance countries. Since the developing countries are more preoccupied with providing just basic necessities to their populations, it would be impossible to force them to follow the same rules as the rich countries.

We can just hope that a consensus is reached sooner to fight this global warming menace otherwise we will be loosing a lot of populated islands in the future due to rising water levels.