Ahead of the Climate Conference in Durban at the end of this month, countries have already begun their normal round of accusation and counter-accusation. We asked a climate expert for his view; "China and India have clubbed together to lecture the west on its industrial past in a sort of extension of the good old "colonial past" argument. According to them the west is to blame for industrialisation and should pay for past sins both by cutting carbon emissions and taking part of theirs. In other words we should de-industrialise while they surge ahead. Its a crafty argument since the west is stuffed with voters who regularly beat their chests over our colonial past while completely ignoring China's and India's own record of doing the same whenever they could. It also completely ignores that China and India are amongst the top three, along with the US, in the emission of carbons. To be honest no country with any land rising above ten feet above sea level gives a monkey's trunk about any of this - they'll gladly sacrifice various Pacific islands if they can squeeze an extra quid out of their economies."
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