POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE KNOW NO BOUNDARIES
The international share of the responsibility for and the action against
unrestrained population growth, non-renewable resource depletion, environmental
pollution and consequent food, water and resource destruction all necessitate
international action and agreement. There are no boundaries in these matters,
the world is now totally interdependent, and it is really a matter of international
agreement or a world at war that is at stake.
The G8, OPEC, the EU, the USA, China, India the Pacific rim, Africa, South
America ? all are now competing for the remaining non-renewable resources
of fuel, raw materials and food. The Third World War is the trade war between
these competing factions ? and it is not winnable by them all. If sustainable
development has any meaning at all, it is at the macro level of mutual survival.
The Kyoto agreement is one of the testing grounds for how the world can
agree to sustainably harvest and share global resources. The shame is that
those who should be leading in this struggle are so far failing to take a
lead and are instead embarking on unsustainable self protection rackets.
Hopefully reason and wisdom will prevail and, perhaps through the United
Nations or a more enlightened G8, an international policy on sustainable development
will emerge.
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