Count Your Blessings

[Tony Griffiths]

Let’s look at the bigger picture. In the West, some people are preoccupied with the so-called man-made global warming, but in India and China, and other developing countries, this is seen as the West’s way of denying them the advantages that made us rich, comfortable, and able to enjoy high-class medical and educational services.  India is the world’s third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, but also the second-largest in population. Its emissions per head rank only 134th in the world; the Chinese issue per head is only slightly more but in most other developing countries a tiny fraction of this. These countries are not going to give up developing their economies - all of which rely on coal to provide cheap power - for some unproven fear in the West. Whatever we in the UK do - we are just 0.86% of the world's population - will make not a scrap of difference - and any UK government that attempts to take away the freedom to travel as one wishes, or impose other expensive and unnecessary "green" measures, will find themselves unelectable. The combined population of India, China and Africa is nearly 4 billion and, in time, they are all going to have motorcycles, cars, washing machines central heating, air conditioning, etc, etc . - and their leaders, to stay in power, will ensure that they do.