Most U.S. North Americans support climate action but manage to repress the knowledge that saving a habitable planet from climate roasting will require international cooperation. The industrialized countries of the West, which have emitted the bulk of greenhouse gases for the last fifty years, will need to send funds and transfer technologies to enable poor and developing countries to reconstruct their economies. Bill and Paul Athanasiou, the founder of the organization EcoEquity, discuss how U.S. North Americans can be convinced that they have moral and practical reasons to aid the less endowed states. Paul Athanasiou is the author of the recent report, A Fair Shares Phase Out: A Civil Society Equity Review of an Equitable Global Phase Out of Fossil Fuels.
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