If the United States and every wealthy country in the world were to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero tomorrow and there were no change in the developing world, "the crisis would still overtake us," said Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States, at a forum in New York City last week.
NEW YORK — If the United States and every wealthy country in the world were to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero tomorrow and there were no change in the developing world, "the crisis would still overtake us," said Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States, at a forum in New York City last week.
Whether or not that is precisely true, the implication almost certainly is.
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Little progress can be made in addressing the global climate crisis, after all, unless common cause is found between rich countries, who created the problem in becoming so, and poorer countries, which understandably resent the idea that they ought not pursue a similar, CO2-belching path to vitality.
"The world has got to get past the long-standing division between rich countries and poor countries," Mr. Gore said.
