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| Yes | 47% | 420 votes | Total: 899 votes | |
| No | 53% | 479 votes |
Yes
by Ron Whyte
Created on: March 05, 2008 Last Updated: October 12, 2011
My first impression is to argue a yes vote although not for the reasons you may expect. We must first
Created on: March 04, 2008 Last Updated: July 15, 2008
The difficult truth is that all countries without any exceptions must "go green", if we want to survive
Created on: March 08, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
We do not live in a world that operates on the principles of fairness. The simple answer is no; it is
Created on: February 20, 2008
The reason that advanced nations are successful due to destructive environmental practices is that these
Created on: March 04, 2008
The real question is, "Do we really want to educate underdeveloped countries to follow the lead in environmental
Created on: March 08, 2008 Last Updated: November 25, 2008
The world's resources are the common heritage of mankind and should therefore be protected for generations
Created on: March 02, 2008 Last Updated: January 10, 2011
Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe
Created on: February 23, 2008
We Are All in This Together
Whether a developing or a highly-industrialized nation, each is responsible
Created on: March 05, 2008
Can the industrialised world demand developing countries be "green" as they grapple with creating jobs,
by Sassafras
Created on: March 08, 2008
Global warming is a worldwide phenomenon that affects every single country, rich and poor. So it behooves
Created on: March 10, 2008
Yes, but ...
It is undeniably the right thing to do to ask all countries to go green. The planet needs
Created on: March 28, 2008
Many years ago in a restaurant in Kathmandu, a Nepalese man (after first suggesting that I was a spy
Created on: March 03, 2008
In reality, underdeveloped countries are steps ahead of developed countries by going green from the
by Lana Evans
Created on: March 06, 2008 Last Updated: December 27, 2010
It is clearly hypocritical, yet far from unfair, that the industrialized world ask nations which are
by Helen Abbott
Created on: February 19, 2008
The fact of the matter is that we are slowly destroying the world in which we live, not to mention ourselves,
by Mak
Created on: March 05, 2008
Developed or underdeveloped country, all are in same boat as far it relates to destruction of environment.
Created on: June 09, 2008
It is just as fair to ask developing countries to operate within a sustainable ecological framework
Created on: February 19, 2008 Last Updated: April 09, 2010
Of course it's fair to ask all nations developed or not, to "go green." The fact that most developed
by Baja Raquel
Created on: March 02, 2008
Undeveloped countries have a significant advantage of going green over the already industrialized countries.
Created on: March 05, 2008
Yes, and it is not only fair, but it is essential as part of a global effort. This concern, however,
No
Created on: February 19, 2008
It would be fair if the industrial countries would recognize their mistakes, their impact on the environment
Created on: December 29, 2009 Last Updated: March 18, 2010
Developed countries have based their development on the destructive and oppressive greed that they demonstrated
Created on: February 27, 2008
Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe
Created on: February 28, 2008
Pollution is, unfortunately, a by-product of a successful economy. Think of the leading economic powerhouses
Created on: March 11, 2008 Last Updated: February 15, 2009
The question in itself is problematic, it points a finger, defying the culprit. It immediately creates
Created on: April 01, 2010 Last Updated: April 02, 2010
Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe
Created on: March 10, 2008
It is definitely not fair to pressure other countries to "go green," considering the fact that several
by Jay Diamond
Created on: March 10, 2008
We live in a world of necessary injustice; a world that is not fair. It is not "fair" for industrialized
Created on: February 17, 2008 Last Updated: November 08, 2008
It is sheer economic might, forcing underdeveloped countries to go green, an escape route for developed
Created on: March 05, 2008
Let us not be ridiculous here. Is anything in this world fair? Is it fair to ask of others what we ourselves
by David Carter
Created on: March 06, 2008
While it is fair to ask-in the Bible Jesus Christ says, "ask and ye shall receive"-it is not fair to
Created on: February 20, 2008 Last Updated: August 13, 2011
People in the underdeveloped countries pay the price for Westerners to have a wonderful life.
The developed
Created on: March 08, 2008 Last Updated: August 31, 2010
There is an old cliche that says "How is it that the pot is calling the kettle black".
Asking underdeveloped
by S. Cyprian
Created on: March 06, 2008
It is simply the case of pot asking spoon to cut down on amount of time spent on fire. It's absurd how
by Sahana
Created on: March 06, 2008
It is absolutely unfair! Talk about being worlds apart. In underdeveloped countries, the fight for survival
by V. Kumar
Created on: March 12, 2008 Last Updated: June 10, 2008
Fair to only one side is not fair at all!
While asking communities and people to sacrifice part of what
Created on: March 08, 2008
No! It is for all. Developed and developing countries should unitedly work for the environmental balance
by EXCELLERATOR
Created on: March 06, 2008
America,America,America..Gr een,Black and blue.We have so many pressing issues.Human rights,political
by K.D. Saffron
Created on: March 12, 2008
The whole issue of "going green" was created by the advanced industrialized nations. Many industrialized
Created on: February 26, 2008
Asking a developing country to go green as we go on with our own destructive environmental practices