When it comes to enviroment, developed nations have double standards, nuclear non proliferation deal is one example. On an average the United States does around 36,000+ nuclear tests every year, which is far more than any country, however CTBT and NPT has different norms for other nations. I wonder how many sea animals are killed every year when such a huge number of tests are conducted, if even 1% of these are conducted in sea, and not on ground.
China is not far behind when it comes to pollution, the crude oil consumption is second largest when it comes to China after the US. (US eats up 25% of Crude). US leaders always blame south asia for pollution, inflation, consumption of food and all other things (terrorism as well !). Deos anyone know what was the immediate need for US to invade Afganistan, the war destroyed whole nation, just to catch someone who was blamed for 9/11. The war expenditure was huge, obviously people died on both sides, which is a different thing, apart from that, huge money flew away from the US, which could had been used to build a whole new country, better than what we have presently. Today when US economy is on the brim of recession and everything seems slowing down, inflation is at higher side, US un-employed data is at all time high, banks going bankcrupt..and so many other things going side-by-side. I imagine if there was no war in last 5 years, it could had been a differnt story altogether.
Enviroment is for everyone and not for some specific nation, it dosent make sense that people in US have all the fun and facilities and population in south asia is always blamed for all mis-happenings and bear sanctions for that.
Vivek Misra
