http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/3639 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:39:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/3639 The United States will have to first go through a GREEN Revolution, and become eco-consumers, so that developing nations can follow suit, and stay competetive. US corporations used child labor, asbestoes, and even poisoined the water and air of a few communities, causing terminal diseases, like cancer. After a several decades in litigation America is an environmentally safer place to live in, but not 100%, so unless we establish more REGULATION on our end of the table, we should NOT be asking developing countries to establish any caps on their side. Bigthink Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:17:15 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/3639/#13382 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/3639 In fact, that is the position of Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany: The same quota of CO2 for every person on the planet. "Right to pollute" sounds wrong, but formulate it the other way round: Everybody should have to accept the same ceiling to the personal amount of Co2 produced. Thats right, and thats fair. We in the west have the obligation to show the way: How to bring together a good life with a per capita quota which allows the planet to live. Bigthink Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:58:55 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/3639/#2091 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/3639 I understand the spirit of Mr. Khosla's remarks, but his rhetoric is dangerous. Is there really a basic human right to pollute, in the same way that there is a basic human right to water, food, shelter, security, education, health care, and dignity? If the intent is to balance a playing field, why not focus on the reasonable limits to American energy consumption rather than focus on a bizarre Indian right to pollute? A reasonable observer would remark that the right to which Khosla refers is a right to economic development - not a right to repeat mistakes of the more developed west. Bigthink Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:59:37 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/3639/#1670