Business as usual

Category: Newspaper article

This story was published in 'The Ottawa Citizen' on Saturday, March 10, 2007

Re: Blame soot, not global warming, for wicked B.C. weather, March 6.

Scientists are now blaming coal smoke from Asian industrial countries such as China and India for the intense Pacific storms that, among other devastation, have caused so much havoc in British Columbia recently.

When emerging industrial nations such as India and China were not required to reduce carbon emissions under the Kyoto protocol because of their late entry as industrial nations, one had to wonder if this arrangement was not merely a convenient out for advanced industrial nations to continue doing business as usual, through free trade, with countries where wages and standards of living are much lower than their own.

Just like the planet Earth itself, what goes around comes around.