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Western concerns imposed on developing countries is not a good idea. Life here is safe and sound for us to think about climate change and other things. When pe
by mindfulplay 7y ago
Western concerns imposed on developing countries is not a good idea.
Life here is safe and sound for us to think about climate change and other things. When people in India don't even have clean water or electricity they shouldn't give a shit about environment or other things.
It took the US 200 years of development before it started working about these things. And the US is / was a developed nation.
- solarkraft 7y agoThis does not make climate change less of an issue. We're at an important turning point and the developed nations just can't stop it alone. Of course they should be doing way, way more and support ways of cleaner development financially.
- mindfulplay 7y agoEvery single one of these new fangled issues was not an issue thirty years ago in the US. So... What makes the West the arbiter of such issues for other countries?
- rorykoehler 7y agoThis isn't about east and west it's about today and the past. In fact if you look at the air pollution levels in New York and Chicago in the 70s they were very high and something was done about them. Currently developed nations had the advantage of being able to externalise the environmental cost of pollution without it affecting them as much immediately during development. Developing nations today don't have that luxury. Time is running out.
- bildung 7y ago> This does not make climate change less of an issue. We're at an important turning point and the developed nations just can't stop it alone. India really isn't much of an issue on that front. The 1.3 billion people living in India produce less than half the greenhouse gas emission of the USA, which has less than 1/4 of India's population.
- rorykoehler 7y agoWe all know the US is the worst offender for greenhouse gases but there's more to pollution than global warming.
- bildung 7y agoAbsolutely! My response was specifically adressing the climate change aspect, not pollution in general.
- danmaz74 7y agoNot giving a shit about the environment isn't such a great way to get clean water.
- krageon 7y agoIf all the "developing countries" don't learn from developed countries' mistakes everyone will be poor 100 years from now, because it'll keep going to shit same as it is now.
- mindfulplay 7y agoAgain a priority for the US.. Imagine if British in late 1700s had said and made sure that "we will only hand off this beautiful country to you if you abolish slavery". It took a whopping 100 years before anything happened. These are all imagined, self-righteous concerns. Leave a country to sort out its own misery in its own time. We have meddled and tortured enough out of these countries already. If there is any priority or imposition, I would want to think like Bill Gates... His priorities are aligned with the well-being of the developing nations not the US.
- krageon 7y agoI don't know why you're so into the United States and more importantly, I don't follow what you're saying at all. Are you implying here that country-level concerns are more important than global concerns?