I think that who causes Global wariming is actually irrevalent and a waste of resourses and debate.
The negative effects of global warming are born by the poorest people in the world increased drought, reduced fresh water and so on. Us here in the western world are relatively unaffected. Global warming if human caused is just another way of the West screwing the developing world.
This should mean that west/developed world is responsible for bearing the costs to fixing the problems. But what is the solution to global warming? The only answers have been to increase the cost of energy. As well as the even worse solutions of bio-diesal and ethonal increasing the cost of food.
So if we don't fix the global wariming problem the developing world gets screwed. If we spend trillions on fixing the problem the cost of everything (energy and food) increases and makes it more difficult for the developing world to feed itself so the real solution isn't to fight global warming it is to invest in preparing for its consequences. Instead of wasting trillions on green energy that will be more expensive then its counterparts spend the trillions on water projects in africa, developing dams to create more airable land and reduce flooding. Invest in real projects that save people lives and prepare them for a warming climate that may not be able to be stopped. The worst thing we can do is by offsets for someone to plant trees somewhere, double our cost of energy by buying wind power and pat ourselves on the back that we have actually done something to help the world
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