Copenhagen is a joke

The Climate Conference in Copenhagen only has four days left to make an agreement. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which consists of the best scientists all over the word, decided long ago that our planet is getting warmer. Ice caps the size of countries and islands are melting as we speak. Even if you don't understand the science, you surely can see the significance of an iceberg the size of Manhattan drifting off and melting away. The Earth is changing, and not in a good way.

Rapid economic development, fueled by fossil fuels, is the primary cause of the problem we're facing today. For hundreds of years, countries like the United States and Denmark enjoyed the luxury of polluting the air in order to get rich. Dirty industry is analogous to the capture and forced labor of unpaid black Africans in its role to get certain countries rich while other countries remained poor.

At the Kyoto conference in 1997, industrialized nations recognized that the global warming crisis was largely a result of their irresponsible growth spurts and accordingly agreed to take measures to reduce their emissions of global harming gasses a rate proportionate to their culpability. Unfortunately, the Kyoto deal was largely ignored and now the world is back at the table again in Copenhagen.

Poorer countries who cannot afford expensive renewable energy technologies need assistance in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and it's the duty of rich countries to help in whatever way they can since this predicament is largely their fault.