AboutHank Hokamp Expertise U. S. (American) History has been a hobby of mine for many a moon. Ask me a question about what happened in a certain year and I`ll tell you! My answer(s) won`t be boring!
Publications Champaign (IL) News-Gazette newspaper = Feature writer and City reporter. Will soon submit a 220 page non-fiction manuscript that deals with subjective thinking for publication.
Education/Credentials Two universities, one college and an institute. My major was Journalism with minors in American History and Sociology.
Awards and Honors 46 athletic awards, mostly in baseball and golf
Expert: Hank Hokamp Date: 6/18/2008 Subject: India Pollution
Question Nobody has the right to pollute so why do the countries of India and China have the right to pollute the environment untl they catch up with more industrialized countries
Answer
Hello, Michelle:
One of the US's biggest disagreements with the Kyoto protocol is that countries like China and India are considered developing and don't have to follow it, even though they are slated to be huge polluters. That was back in the 90's ... and guess what? The US was right. China is now the largest polluter in the world, contributing increasingly more CO2 than the US. India isn't that far behind. China is going unchecked, opening a new coal power plant every week without many of the pollution controls commonly implemented in the US. But everyone still wants to attack the US, and blame everything on us.
Given their large populations, if China and India continue to develop without regard to climate controls, their contribution will far out weigh the rest of the worlds well before they are even considered to be truly industrialized nations.
ANSWER: Neither country has the right to pollute but what can we do about it except negotiate? You guessed it ... NOTHING!
