Consumption levels in industrialised world unsustainable, says Manmohan

[FarCenter]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday once again admonished the West for living a high life and not paying for it.

In a brief statement, he told the Plenary of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) on Thursday that “current consumption levels in the industrialised world are unsustainable.”

U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not attend.

Dr. Singh said, “Many countries could do more if additional finance and technology were available. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of support from the industrialised countries in these areas. The ongoing economic crisis has made matters worse.”

The reference was clear — the West did not pay when it had the money, so now that it doesn’t, how will it do so?

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article3559632.ece

[Speck Tater]

1. If energy and resources were distributed fairly...

every country in the world would be a third-world country, including us. Of course we can't allow ourselves to live that way so we have no choice but to continue to exploit the little brown people in distant places.

I mean, seriously; being in favor of fairness is all well and good, in theory, but let's not go crazy and sacrifice our privileged status for it. That's just nuts!

Sure, it's a shame that so many people don't even have clean water to drink, but we have to have our cars and plasma TV's no matter what. We're Americans. We're entitled to those luxuries.