Better still stick 'em in politicians gobs, cut off a lot of hot air.
Dorsetmike
Yeah!! Right on!!
I´ll side with you any day of the week.
However, we in the western democracies at the same time the most highly developed industrialized countries, always seem to fail when it comes to understanding the huge problems the 3. World undeveloped countries face every day.
Please turn to this link and you will find, that the wishes and demands from the undeveloped countries on this planet do not seem unreasonable. They are -
all of Asia (except Japan), Africa and most of South America - except Brasil and Mexico:
http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/rgodby/ENR2000/summit_paper_UDA.htm
But we also have to face the fact that the Kyoto agreement, left out the two most poluting countries on our common planet - China and the USA meassured per capita. This fact unfortunately was repeated by the same two countries before the Copenhagen Climate Conference began. Both USA and China denied to sign a legal binding document, and IMBO from that day on, the entire idea and the basic reasons for the Copenhagen Climate Conference 2009 - so to speak - rapidly went down hill or "down the drain".
Some day, we in the wealthy western highly democratical industrialized countries, will have to face the fact that we must share our advanced technologies
and our high educational level in our own countries, openly with the 3. World undeveloped countries, which we have colonised and imperialised, always better knowing than they are for more than 400 years, where education of the population is the key to dealing with the threatening issues in these countries. Where starvation, the lack of clean unpoluted water, contagerous deseases, over population, free medicin, doctoring and the ability to enter a hospital for free, are much more serious issues on an every day basis in the 3. World countries, than all of us in the west realise.
For instance, if we had to live in Africa on the savanna in the Sudan in the Dafur provence for instance, where rain has not been seen for ten years in a row, so that no crops can actually grow, which mean we can´t eat, and where the key issue every day is to stay alive, frightend of being killed by some guy, who uses a machete knife, global warming and the quest to decrease CO2 poisoning, are not even as important for Africa, as it has become to us in the west - in Canada, the USA, Japan, Australia and of course the European countries, equals the highly developed industrialized countries.