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The West should foot the bill for tackling Climate Change

Since the industrial economies of the West are responsible for the majority of the carbon burnt up into the air over the last two hundred years, the logical conclusion is that they should be the ones to make the biggest sacrifices in turning the 21st century green.

Yet if China and India continue to grow at their present rate (China builds two new power stations every week), any progress made in America and Europe will count for nothing. The great risk is, that if the world doesn’t sort out a coherent strategy for fighting climate change, the result won’t simply be squabbling and protectionism. It will be a planetary calamity.

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