Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy 'Colonialism' « Green New Deal

by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey
No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global development would clearly be an unworkable — and profoundly unfair — way to address the climate crisis. As environmental scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker put it this morning at a conference in Berlin: “Poor and clean countries don’t want to miss their chance to get rich and dirty.”

Getting developing nations to leapfrog ahead to “rich and clean,” however, has its own potential pitfalls. more

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