Climate

For two hundred years Western Europe and North America pumped huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere while they enjoyed the growth of the industrial revolution. Now the West is critical of Asia and Africa using coal to bring them up to date. Countries only progress as far as their energy supply grows and for the developing countries that means coal. While concern for climate change represents one side of the equation the other side is the moral imperative of allowing these developing countries the same opportunities that were awarded to the West. This is why most of the concern about climate change by the environmentalists centers around the US moving to wind and solar. It is uncomfortable to bring up the short comings in the developing world knowing about the past.