Third World countries protest First World countries over climate change
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
50 African countries walked out of a UN working meeting on climate change in Barcelona, Spain. The African and 70 other Third World countries have been protesting U.N. climate negotiations this week. According to the African spokespeople, the wealthy countries make weak commitments to environmental protection and it is the poor countries suffer the most severe consequences.
Africa, for example, is being devastated by droughts and floods that result from climate changes. Even though the Third World accounts for only a third of greenhouse gasses, it will suffer 80 percent of the damage resulting from climate change. According to an African Union official, the state of Texas alone “with 30 million inhabitants creates as much greenhouse gases as the billion Africans taken together.”
Africans advocate that the First World countries should reduce their carbon emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020. The African demand lines up with the upper limit advocated by scientists. However, so far, the targets that have been announced, favored by First World countries, have fallen far short.
These protests set the stage for negotiations at the final Copenhagen conference. UN negotiators hope to adopt a final treaty to reduce worldwide carbon emissions. The Copenhagen deal would succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sought to reduce gas emissions from industrial countries by 5 percent. Of all the major greenhouse gas producers, the US was the only one to reject the Kyoto accord.
Environmental issues, especially global warming, affects both First and Third World peoples. However, First World peoples are the ones who benefit the most from greenhouse economy. The greenhouse economy, the capitalist-imperialist economy, is an economy that principally serves First World consumers at the expense of Third World producers. Yet those who suffer most from climate change are peoples in the Third World. Any fair treaty to reduce carbon emissions should put the brunt of responsibility on First World countries to clean up the environmental mess that results from the world system that serves their endless consumption. In addition, any fair treaty should respect and not impede Third World development and sovereignty.
Sources
1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_climate_talks
2. http://monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/reparations-demanded-for-eco-destruction-of-africa/
The First World lifestyle is based on the structural impoverishment and suffering of the Third World. In countless ways the First World lives off the Third World. This is basic materialism. Yet First Worldist so-called Marxists can’t even admit this. Rather they continue their social fascism that seeks to continue to raise up the bulk of the First World population at the expense of humanity and the environment. If the imperialist countries wanted to end global warming, they could easily stop consuming like pigs. They will continue to eat away our future with the fake Maoists and social fascists cheering them on.