The World Environmental Committee

I'm not sure what the exact name of this committee is, but their job is to discuss ways in which the nations of the world can preserve what little of the natural environment we have left. Which is fine and dandy. But at what cost? This committee consists of the U.S. (of course), Europe, and other various developing nations. The latest concern is China and India.

For those of you who live in a cave, China and India are two of the world's fastest growing economies. Both nations have taken after the United States and Japan, and have begun to industrialize their own nations. With industrialization comes energy consumption and economic power. It means millions of jobs for millions of people in China and India; this will give these nations the opportunity to get out of poverty and become an economic power. But aside from that, that will also mean huge amounts of extra industrial pollution to the world's environment. The Committee is meeting to discuss how this can be mitigated if not avoided.

Their short solution is to limit the amount of energy consumption from these developing countries. But wait! The established nations on the committee say nothing about reducing their own energy consumption and waste pollution. Instead, they're trying to impose these rules on the developing nations. In essence, it's the ol' "you do as I say, don't do as I do". Hipocrisy at its finest. Digusting, but true.