It is surprising how an important issue like Global warming has been diluted by escape provisions such as carbon trading. Rich nations, which are the worst polluters, can buy Carbon credits and continue to pollute. These nations can continue to pollute while the poor nations earn carbon credits to sell by cutting down their emissions at the cost of development. At the end of the day the carbon levels continue to remain the same and the world continues to stand on the brink of environmental catastrophe.
While individuals and nations continue to profit through carbon trading, communities and species arond the world continue to bear the brunt of Climate Change without contributing to it. The situation is similar to punishing a bystander on a crime scene. If only the haves of the world would have been more sensitive to the needs of have nots. The Carbon credits would be of little use when half the world is submerged and most of its species have disappeared. It is surprising that in the process of making its life more livable a part of the world is making life unlivable for another part of the world and for various species of the world. The world does not belong only to the the humans. it has been made what it is by its plants and animals too who will be the first casualities of human follies. How can we singlehandedly destroy a shared asset? since when did humans become so cold hearted, so unfair?
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