The Times: Poverty

Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too
Even if the science was reliable (which it isn’t), we should not force the world’s poorest countries to cut carbon emissions
The article, written by Nigel Lawson is about the fact that we should not force developing countries to cut back their carbon emission. The discussion over this topic took place in Copenhagen at the United Nations climate change conference.
The conference included the reason why we use carbon-based energy. It is simply that it is far and away the cheapest source of energy, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

Switching to much more expensive energy may be acceptable for us in the developed world. But in the developing world, there are still tens of millions of people suffering from acute poverty, and from the consequences of such poverty, in the shape of preventable disease, malnutrition and premature death. It is important in times where we start to cut back carbon emissions that all factors are being taken care of. Though the attempt for the poor countries to also cut back their carbon emission is contradicting because the developing countries do not have to knowledge how to do so and the people need to be educated how to cut back their personal carbon emissions. Those countries have the highest carbon emission at the moment in compare to the developed countries so this is the point. It is important for carbon emissions to reduce though for countries like India this is not possible at the moment so a decision has to be made and a plan how to raise awareness in there poor countries.