The controversy surrounding the current environmental summit in Kyoto is about whether we should exempt developing nations from environmental restrictions designed to prevent "global warming". The arguments are bogus in nature and are fashioned in an "all or nothing" approach. Those who piously claim that developing nations need to catch up to the developed nations and that regulations necessarily slow growth are playing into the hands of irresponsible rogue multinational corporations who have absolutely no sense of personal responsibility [which is apparently only for the little guys who can't bribe governments]. What is clear is that if we have a multitier system of environmental standards we can guess where the parasites will choose to do business. It isn't about protecting jobs and shouldn't be framed as a "your money or your life [or health]" proposition which is how the lapdog commercial media will portray the debate.

I have yet to hear any proposals which would put slightly lower standards in developing countries - which would be many times more strict than no standards whatsoever, which is what the parasites have now - along with higher standards in industrialized countries. This would provide some incentive to invest in poorer countries without subjecting citizens to ridiculous living conditions such as are routine in most places in China. It would be possible to incrementally raise standards in developed countries while installing lower standards in developing countries that would exceed the nil to nonexistent standards already in place there. While it is true that many parasites would hesitate to move to backward political systems without the extreme license to trash that they would gain in the command economy. This might move many autocracies towards the establishment of the rule of law, instead of the rule of autocrats, and democratizing societies in order to make investment more palatable. I will have to depart from environmental activists in their insistence on very high unilateral standards on developed countries with none on poorer countries: it just won't work and may make the problems worse!


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