With the high-profile Glasgow Climate Conference only just behind us, already existing differences between rich and poor countries would appear to be hardening over just what approach should be taken to reducing carbon emissions which scientists say is pushing the world in the direction of a climate crisis.
One of the focal points of the disagreement has to with the timing of what has become an increasingly aggressive global lobby for significantly reduced levels of oil and gas recovery in order to push back the speed of global warming. While the greater numbers of climate lobbyists reside in developed countries, poor, underdeveloped countries that are looking to oil and gas revenues to enhance their economies are beginning to express increasing resentment over the fact that pressures associated with reduced levels of oil recovery could torpedo their efforts to salvage what, in many instances, are poverty-ravaged economies.