And another thing. The "west" collectively has had a certain lifestyle that has been at a minimum a ridiculously high rate of consumption per capita.
Now that you have India and China emerging, shifting their lifestyle to a more 'westernized' one with cars, oil, natural gas usage... how exactly are we going to get them to just watch their energy consumption? How hypocritical is that? Oh yeah we just lived the high petroleum life for the last 100 years but you guys? Yeah you guys can't.
Not to mention that with their populations, the magnitude of environmental impact should amount to something much worse looking that North America... particularly with China's rockstar environmental record.
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