Should bigger and richer countries pay more for environmental damages?

@viney17 (688)
Philippines
October 3, 2011 11:56am CST
Well i mean they are the one with more factories and really are damaging the environment, so since they are getting rich with damaging or getting resources from the environment, shouldn't they take charge and compensate more for the price that they had taken from mother nature? I mean they are the ones that should plant more trees because they are the that cut more trees and control themselves from exhausting other resources, though some of our resources are quite unlimited, it takes time for these resources to be usable again like the oil, or other minerals.
3 responses
@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
4 Oct 11
That's true! It's the bigger and richer countries that are using up the most of the resources and should be responsible for how much is used and taken. Several big companies and organizations have tried to approach environmentally friendly ways to compensate all the damages they've caused to the environment. In my country, Australia, the prime minister is trying to implant a carbon tax to help tackle global warming and environmental damages. How ever many people are against this because this means paying a lot more in taxes while everything else becomes expensive. Right now, groceries to electricity bills have grown to such expensive prices and everyone is protesting against the carbon tax. People say that there's no point in saving the environment when it's going to be gone anyway.
@viney17 (688)
• Philippines
4 Oct 11
Such selfish people, didn't they consider the miserable world that their sons, rand sons, their entire bloodline will live in when the world is destroyed? How cruel and so selfish of them to say that.
@ebuscat (5935)
• Philippines
4 Oct 11
For me they can't payed it because if the environment they destroy they pay it by the maker of the earth is Jehovah God.
• Australia
4 Oct 11
You'll get no argument from me. User pays is good Capitalist sense, so make the Capitalists pay for what they use. But then again, just how much tax do the rich pay their goverments, and who actually runs their governments. Very little and they do. So the chances of getting the rich countries to chip in their fair share of the damage repair is very idealistic of us - abd probaby has a snowball's chance in hell of happening. Even now the Conservative Right and the large industrialists in my country are fighting tooth and nail to block the carbon tax our slightly left wing government wants to levy as the first step of environmental protection for the future. Lash