Tuesday 15 December 2009
COP 15: Accepting Responsibility
Imagine you live in a community that has garbage collection. The landfills are almost full and somethng must change if the town is not to drown in its own garbage. The less well off say that the richest 20% must cut their amount of garbage by 50% - recycling the other 50% by themselves. Meanwhile, the 80% less well off will be allowed to continue increasing the amount of garbage they put out for collection (albeit at a slower rate) and the richer citizens should pay them a fee for not increasing their garbage output faster than they did the year before. This fee will not relate to the amount of decrease in their garbage growth nor will it relate to the amount of recycling that the less affluent do: it will be a flat transfer of money that they say they will spend on recycling and garbage reduction - but if they do not, they will not have to pay it back. That's the G77 position.# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 05:30 
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