Posted on 03/25/2010 1:37:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AFP) The planet is overheating, under-resourced, and almost out of time, but technical innovation and green economics could save the world, experts and leaders Thursday told an international conference here.
Video-linked panels in New York, Monaco, Mexico City, Beijing, London, Nairobi and New Delhi painted an alarming picture of global poverty and environmental degradation.
They called on the United States and other rich countries to show leadership, for example by investing in carbon capture technology and other long-term methods of reducing greenhouse gasses.
But developing countries, where pollution is growing rapidly, can also play a big role -- and at the same time lift their populations from poverty, ..
"We can have prosperity this way, fighting climate change -- and a prosperity that will last a lot longer," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said by video link to the conference at New York's Columbia University.
Calderon said Mexico had ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions, replant forests and generate a quarter of electricity needs from renewable resources by 2012.
"I am further convinced that the first countries to change will gain considerable competitive advantages," he said.
Nitin Desai at the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi said India and China were also "both being very proactive" in pursuing low-carbon technologies.
Businesses are starting to exploit a "huge, huge market" for solar and other renewable forms of energy, he told the conference by video link.
Experts credited simple innovations, such as animal-powered electricity generators in rural India and the spread of mobile phones in Africa, for bringing opportunity to isolated communities, while greening the economy.
On a bigger scale, Achim Steiner, executive director for the UN Environment Program, said Africa should stop being a "mine" for rich countries and instead turn over its natural resources to sustainable industries.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The answer is Soylent Green.
Somebody didn’t get the memo...
Yes because of Socialist dictatorships and Islamic theocratic disputes that even pit different muslim believers against one another.
That the US is broke and can't hand out monies anymore to despots?
Their approach makes sense; No industry or economy, no growth, means lots of grass, brush and wild trees to reclaim the land.
Which means it will be a damned sight “greener” and the “Progressives” can all hold hands, dance in the sun and eat daisies.
Somehow, I don’t think Mexico is an example of anything good for anyone.
true enough---don't always think through my 'heat of the moment' posts
So put a question mark at the end of my sentence (in your mind-smile)
Developing countries do that: “develop”, so-called “green rules retard a poor country’s ability to grow and prosper. Thus keeping them “poor” and dependant on rich nations to support them. Actually support the rich, corrupt dictators that keep the people starving.
This is the biggest line of bullsh$t I've read today.
So far.
To the “experts”: (All credit due to Dilbert) “Change is good: You go first!”
Climate debate: opinion vs evidence ( Reason Free Zone? so says Joanne of JoNova )
I guess they don’t know who the experts are yet...they are commenting on how a green economy can save the planet??? LOL!
Where's PETA!???
“Ah yes....the always knowledgeable yet, mysterious....Experts.....”
Yes Exactly - Truth be know, “Experts” has become another name for ‘Vested Interests” IMHO
Geez! I gotta do everything around here.
NEW YORK (AFP) The planet is overheating, under-resourced, and almost out of time, but technical innovation and green economics could save the world, experts and leaders Thursday told an international conference here.
You conveniently forgot “God is an ignoramus and didn’t know what he was doing”. So now we have a choice of ignoramuses.
I don’t think I’m on your side.
Mexican President Felipe Calderons country is falling apart on his watch because he cannot control druglords and he is going to solve poverty? I dont think so.
Yea butt, he has an excuse, Hillary Clinton told me just the other day, that the drug lords were more powerful than the Mexican Government because they were able to bring in illegal guns purchased in the United States.
What she didn’t say was purchased from the United States Government, they soon found themselves in the hands of the drug lords, by theft, stealth, corruption, etc, etc.
When one is a master of the King's English, one assumes the burden of perfecting its usage for the uneducated masses.
:>)
LOL!
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