I was watching the daily show the other day, the one with clive owen as the guest star. There was this amusing part about global warming. Scientists have come to a consenus on one thing, and hey, they appear to concur with (gasp!) Nelly. [as quoted on the show]

It’s gettin hot in here (so hot)
So take off all your clothes

Jokes aside, the issue with global warming and the technicalities of the Kyoto Protocol piss me off. They piss me off cos’ the treaty took so long to be signed by so many parties and longer to get ratified. They piss me off cos’ even after all that, the largest pollutor in the world, the United States, is not a signatory party to this treaty. They piss me off cos’ even after the Kyoto came into force and Russia ratified the treaty, it still leaves India, China and US out of the picture. The biggest irony is that they pollute more than anyone else on earth. Ok fine, so the US is not going to budge. They have enough muscle anyway. But it seems almost senseless that two rising economic powers who cough out toxic gases and pollute the earth so much are willingly left out. Ok, granted India and China are left out of Kyoto’s initial phase because most of their people are still dirt poor and it’s not fair to ask them to clean the air rather than eat food. But what’s the use then?

So the rest of the world works hard (or at least it attempts to do so) at cleaning up their acts but the guilty parties, namely US, China and India continue to cloak our atmosphere with noxious shit. I mean, come on, one just has to go to any major Indian city to witness the shocking amount of pollution. You can hardly breathe in there! The only point of getting to Bangalore is to escape to the rural clean areas. So in reality, it’s not the poor people who’re poisioning this world. It’s the bloody rich and middle class in the cities who do it. The poor people live in enough abject poverty to distance themselves from the poisionous doings of their richer counterparts. YET, they breathe in the same air. So they suffer. WHY then is the reason to exclude India and China, because of their poor brethen, when it’s the rich and the middle class who ought to be punished and put in their right place?

Ok, I admit it’s hard to identify the blameworthy parties of pollution and arguably even harder to persecute them, given the redundant bureacracies that may or may not exist, each bringing nothing but hindrance to the game. BUT the cities are a start. Companies are a start. Esp. Foreign companies. Even worse if they’re american companies, polluting not only in America (killing their own people) and polluting in Asia too (proceeding to kill rest of the world citizens). Is that a pattern? Kill people, even if war can’t do it.