[T]here is a perfectly good reason developing countries are unwilling to act on climate change: What they are being asked to do is more awful than climate change’s implications–even if one accepts all the alarmist predictions.
Rather than engage with the issues, eco-pundits are grasping for all kinds of fanciful pseudo-scientific theories to explain why the idea of binding emissions cuts are leaving the rest of the world cold. But this psychologizing only exposes the inability of climate activists to take seriously the rational case for inaction.
[T]he choice for developing countries is between mass death due to the consequences of an overheated planet sometime in the distant future, and mass suicide due to imposed instant starvation right now. Is it any surprise that they are reluctant to jump on the global-warming bandwagon?
If and when climate change promises to claim more casualties than poverty and starvation, the world will begin heeding the eco-warrior calls. Until then, global warming is eco-warrior hot air.
Via Instapundit.
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