In Kyopenhagen, Robert Mugabe signals his eagerness to dip into the global purse:
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday chided the West from the podium of the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen for what he charged was a double standard under which it fell short on addressing global warming while taking developing countries to task over human rights.
Mr. Mugabe told the climate change summit: “When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.”
He complained that polluters are not pursued by Western governments with the same zeal they show in castigating abusers of human rights.
“Why,” asked Mr. Mugabe, “is the guilty North not showing the same fundamentalist spirit it exhibits in our developing countries on human rights matters on this more menacing threat of climate change?”
He appeared to single out the United States in his remarks, demanding, “When a country spits on the Kyoto Protocol by seeking to shrink from its diktats, or by simply refusing to accede to it, is it not violating the global rule of law?” The United States has declined to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
He said the developing world would be called upon to clean up the mess left by the industrialized West, therefore deserved ample climate-related funding.
“We who bear the burden of healing the gasping earth must draw the most from the global purse for remedial action,” Mr. Mugabe declared.





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