There is only one goddess Gaia and Al Gore is her only prophet...

[Jester]

So, as a life long "green" advocate, I'm concerned we are past the point of corrective balance.

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No one is willing to just do the right thing.

Can you not see the commonsense argument that the nations that have polluted "past the point of corrective balance" are the ones who should be the first to "do the right thing"? Or how justifiably cynical the third world is when they refuse, on the basis that it might endanger the lifestyle which caused the problem in the first place? A lifestyle that the third world does not enjoy, and has never enjoyed?

Sure, they're self interested. But they're being asked to both suffer the consequences of pollution and pay the price of prevention by far richer nations, who are dragging their feet and complaining about their own lack of prudence and foresight.

-Jester