Inconveinent Villains

Thursday, December 17, 2009



We're never quite going to get the climate change people are looking forward until we get some needed change in areas that people refuse to address.


Like, for example, a commitment from the toxic wonders of the late 20th century.


Any sort of climate change agreement that allows billion-member nations such as China and India to give a scant commitment to change without any viable and enforceable measures in place only amounts to the current conditions that we face regarding the global climate change debate - namely, a lot of blame on the Western world, a lot of guilt assumed by the Western nations for sins of the past, and a growing call for Western nations to pay for it economically.


Now, I'm not saying that many of these nations are without flaws. Granted, much of industrialization (and its impact on the planet) have some from these nations. At the same time, it is also from these nations (particularly their tax base and their native ingenuity) that a climate to address these situations comes regularly. Without the funding within the borders of these convenient global climate villains, we lose valuable opportunities to allow the best and brightest to chase down these solutions that will help us all.


Calling for rich nations to subsidize poorer nations for global climate care is misguided at best and guilt-driven and unethical at worst.

This "distribution of wealth" mantra that has taken over Washington is only a small sample of what has been ramping up around the world for decades now without a clear understanding that there is no true thing called "distribution of wealth." Any "distribution" of wealth always leads to the destruction of wealth - or the accumulation of wealth from private individuals to public governments that eventually lead to controlling the populace.

What the poorer nations of the world need are more initiatives that lead to building wealth, not scattering money around the global as band-aid efforts that never heal the underlying issues. Initiatives coming from Copenhagen should include more of this.

If you want to help the poorer nations more with global climate change efforts, provide more exchange programs for their students to come to the United States and other Westernized nations in order to study specifically science and math in order to take this knowledge home to their native nations after 4-7 years of study in order to impact their homelands in this climate change endeavor. If you want to help the poorer nations more with global climate change efforts, incentivize the business leaders of those nations (even if they come from external sources) to attempt to provide green incentives to businesses within their borders; (of course, the college initiative plays into this.) If you want to help the poorer nations more with global climate change issues, help them find greener methods to excel at their top business successes. If you want to help the poorer nations more with global climate change efforts, provide more exchange programs for their students to come to the United States and other Westernized nations in order to study specifically science and math in order to take this knowledge home to their native nations after 4-7 years of study in order to impact their homelands in this climate change endeavor. If you want to help the poorer nations more with global climate change efforts, incentivize the business leaders of those nations (even if they come from external sources) to attempt to provide green incentives to businesses within their borders; (of course, the college initiative plays into this.) If you want to help the poorer nations more with global climate change issues, help them find greener methods to excel at their top business successes.

Shifting money from nation to nation is not the answer to build from a long-term perspective in business and the same is true when regarding the climate change fight. It's that much worse if we focus on the Westernized nations and not on the growing nations of China and India, particularly their impacts on the world's ozone level and overall environment.

Shifting funds around without holding these two nations at a high level of true accountability (e.g., shutting down the continued progression of Chinese-built coal furnaces and plants weekly) only makes one set of nations a target for scorn and blame without addressing current challenges, culprits, and conceptions that could lead to 21st century solutions.

Perhaps we as a nation continue to play into this game of Inconvenient Villains because we know that the Chinese and Indians are not as willing to acquiesce to the whims of other nations, changing their routines and causing their economies while sending valuable resources outside of their borders.

And we are - again - willing to fund the whims of others (as we were with abortion services and other "needs") - at a time when many Americans are suffering throughout a historic economic crisis here in the USA.

Then again, we are a convenient - and willing - participant in the blame game for most things wrong with the world. And as long as we are willing to financially pay for it without looking into the true economic - and rudimentary - costs and causes of today's climate issues, we as a nation will remain willing to over the Inconvenient Villains in 21st century climate abuse while paying the cost to slide back as a world leader.