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Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy ‘Colonialism’

Family and friends pose in front of a house in South Africa with a new solar heating system. Photo by Abri_Beluga via Flickr No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global development would clearly be an unworkable — and profoundly unfair — way to address the climate crisis. As environmental scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker put it this morning at a conference in Berlin: “Poor and cle… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy ‘Colonialism’