by Monique Kuschel

Created on: February 19, 2008

It would be fair if the industrial countries would recognize their mistakes, their impact on the environment and consider the health of future generations first.

The companies that started and survived the industrial revolution over the last 100 years, have become large corporations, they have stockholders to satisfy, they are employing large numbers of employees and are the most priced investments on the world wide Stock Exchange.

Large underdeveloped countries, like China, are securing the future of our large corporations,allowing them to produce the same polluting products, without restrictions, responding to the demand of a massive growing economy.

Before the underdeveloped countries would even consider to "go green", the industrial nations would have to become green themselves, which they have yet not achieved, for the main reason to assure the survival of the large corporations that drive our economies.

All our major corporations will survive due to the emerging economies, polluting our world from different parts of the globe. Their manufacturing plants will be situated in these countries, employing the cheap labor at first, building the products needed, increasing the wealth of their own employees, assuring the increasing demand of their products.

Sooner than later, the work force in the industrial nations will be unemployed, creating a need to develop the products a post industrial nation is willing to accept. This shift in awareness will create new, greener products, the former polluting industrial companies will have been absorbed within the framework of the emerging nations.

While it seems to be a defeat to create polluting emerging industries and greener post-industrial markets, it is the slow but necessary shift necessary to avoid a complete collapse of the world economy. Change needs to happen carefully and slowly.

By need or by choice the post industrial countries will finally tap into the greener choices available to us , creating employment and products allowing the modern world to discover a new way to live and thrive. Eventually, in the distant future, these industries will influence the markets of the emerging countries, which by then would have become the largest polluters on the planet.

The USA, Russia and Europe have been the largest polluters over the last 100 years, these post industrial countries will become green eventually, the pollution will have shifted to Asia, South America. On a global level, the pollution will have shifted to others

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