Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reaches Record Levels, Scientists Say

[Flake]

US emissions are at a low, and dropping, it's the developing nations that are reaching record highs.

We're still the worst nation per capita for our emissions. We really shouldn't place so much blame on the underdeveloped countries, because our current economic system makes it so much cheaper to use non renewable resources than to use renewable resources in their factories to produce cheap goods for highly developed countries such as the U.S., so the companies are forced to continue using non renewable energy in order to continue to profit.

The problem really lies in the developed countries exploiting the underdeveloped ones.

[Flake]

US emissions are at a low, and dropping, it's the developing nations that are reaching record highs.

We're still the worst nation per capita for our emissions. We really shouldn't place so much blame on the underdeveloped countries, because our current economic system makes it so much cheaper to use non renewable resources than to use renewable resources in their factories to produce cheap goods for highly developed countries such as the U.S., so the companies are forced to continue using non renewable energy in order to continue to profit.

The problem really lies in the developed countries exploiting the underdeveloped ones.

So...we're exploiting them by buying their products?

We're exploiting them by continuing an economic system that creates a circle of poverty among those citizens and damages their environment by creating tremendous amounts of waste and that necessitates the need to use non renewables and pay their employees very low wages in order to keep prices so low.

[Flake]

US emissions are at a low, and dropping, it's the developing nations that are reaching record highs.

We're still the worst nation per capita for our emissions. We really shouldn't place so much blame on the underdeveloped countries, because our current economic system makes it so much cheaper to use non renewable resources than to use renewable resources in their factories to produce cheap goods for highly developed countries such as the U.S., so the companies are forced to continue using non renewable energy in order to continue to profit.

The problem really lies in the developed countries exploiting the underdeveloped ones.

So...we're exploiting them by buying their products?

We're exploiting them by continuing an economic system that creates a circle of poverty among those citizens and damages their environment by creating tremendous amounts of waste and that necessitates the need to use non renewables and pay their employees very low wages in order to keep prices so low.

Do you have any evidence that third-world poverty has increased since we began trading with them?

I don't see how it's our fault that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables...that would be true countrregardless of whether or not we traded with developing countries.

Obviously compared to our country they're paid significantly less than workers in our country, even counting in the cost of living there. I'm not saying it's our fault that fossil fuels is cheaper, but we do have a responsibility to help these companies develop new green technology that's affordable since we're really the reason this is going on.