Perhaps it depends on whom you talk to. Over in Copenhagen, politicians gathered to craft climate agreements among 193 countries. Turns out, the number of allotted gas emissions is tied closely to industrial production—thus developing countries get the economic shaft when they’re give the same standards of emissions as other countries. The
Scientific American covers some of the
new thinking and new arguments this year in the battle for the atmosphere.
Arugued one constituent,
“Every human being has an equal right to the resources of the atmosphere,” says Dasgupta, arguing for a per person emissions limit. “How will this resource, which for the first time in history has become a resource which is limited in supply, how is to be divided in the global community?”
Think you’re getting your fair share of gas emissions? Or are they bartering away our earth?
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