Fiasco!: West Bets Climate Change Will Hurt Poor the Most – Le Quotidien d’Oran of Algeria

It’s a lowdown dirty allegation, but is it true? Have the large multinationals concluded that a little global warming wouldn’t be bad for their bottom lines? Furthermore, are their actions based on the belief that people in the developing world would be hurt the most?

That is precisely what K. Selim of Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran charges in this hard-hitting attack on Western vested interests that he says are behind the ‘fiasco’ in Copenhagen.

For Le Quotidien d’Oran, K. Selim writes in part:

“Under pressure from the multinationals, for whom the West’s men of power are merely authorized representatives, the terms of commitment meant to limit average global temperature rises to two degrees were greatly reduced and the potential for a legally binding agreement largely abandoned. … In this Danish affair, Westerners are playing a very risky game. The strategists of the multinationals consider that the bulk of future disasters will be concentrated in the developing world and that a few states would benefit from some level of global warming – which could considerably facilitate the exploitation of mineral resources at the poles [the Arctic and Antarctic]. By this yardstick, solidarity is an entirely secondary consideration.”

By K. Selim

Translated By Sandrine Ageorges

December 18, 2009

Algeria – Le Quotidien d’Oran – Original Article (French)

Without a last-minute miracle, the conference on global warming in Copenhagen will end in failure. The huge Western media machine, looking for a scapegoat, is trying without much conviction to designate the People’s Republic of China as the country primarily responsible for this terrible result.

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