why depend on developed countries to conserve environment?

Question

can developing countries do their part to conserve environment?

Answer 1

yeah, avoid developing their industry

Answer 2

Of course developing countries need to do their part to help conserve the environment. Most of the damage already done to the environment is caused by industrialized society & their companies treating the earth like its their own inexhaustible bowl of resources to deplete as they choose in order to please shareholders & other powerful groups.

I fully understand why developing countries want to follow in the footsteps of the more 'developed' countries and reap the same 'benefits' that they think industrialization has brought the developed countries. However, I think the best plan is for the developing countries to form their own development & economic plans that focus on conserving & preserving their resources. There are many other ways to develop an economy rather than irresponsible manufacturing processes......ecological tourism, develop the ecologically sound products & services that the 'developed world' will be clamouring (I can spell it that way because I'm Canadian!) for and soon enough, they will be the countries leading the way and pulling the strings as we deplete our natural resources and drag our feet in changing the values and practices of our own society.

Answer 3

It is like asking: why able bodied persons would lend their hand to rescue the drowning ship in which ladies and children are also on-board?

Firstly, the able bodied persons (read developed countries) have the abilities and technologies to tackle the environmental degradation. In other words, if the developed countries can reduce the degradation of environment, then it would be a great help for the mankind.

For example, if people in developed countries can try the following things (along with people in developing countries):

1. Offices, homes and public place administrators to install instruments for reducing lightings, fans and such utilities if the occupants are not using the place, which can also be detected by some kind of motion-detectors. Fine-tunining, as an on-going process, would eliminate discomfort, if any, happen to the inhabitants. We would save energy and that ultimately would change our habit (lifestyle) and awareness to conserve energy.

2. Car-pooling and such Mass Transport systems to be built in places where these are practicable. The circular railway and waterways to be built and utilized in countries where these are feasible.

3. We have already conserved energy by utilizing electronic communication systems such as expanded network of Telephones, Mobile phones, e-mails (websites included), fax etc. We used to travel distances to communicate, in recent past, by driving or using airlines which has now been curtailed significantly though these are not tangible to us due to the abnormal growth of the demand for energy.

So, efforts should be made to make above noted communication media available to maximum number of the population of the earth even if the developed countries would need to contribute to make these cheaper for the mankind.

Answer 4

They can, but we forget that the earth "conserves" itself at a natural rate, balancing the effects of life on it. The problem is that developing countries are forcing the balance far from a natural balance by introducing much pollution, and unnatural chemicals into the system. Granted, developing do too, but only where developed countries have built their factories because environmental laws are less strict therefore more profit. Unfortunately, developing nations governments are almost at the mercy of corporations from the first world, as they provide jobs and funnel tiny channels of money into their countries (which to them seem like HUGE money). It's very hard to bite the hand that feeds you, even when it is the right thing to do.

Answer 5

Developed countries should be able to put a base plan into effect in an effort to conserve. The question is, "will they"? It's pretty sad when all of these developed nations have trashed the planet when a bunch of tribes in who knows where are taking care of things better than we are.

Answer 6

the trouble is that developped countries have destroyed most of the environment in less developped areas, for their (the developped countries) manufactures.

besides global warming is more due to the cars of the developped countries then say the backward african nations who still ride on camel back.

but besided africa, what is left of a backward country?

India is becomming a superpower and soon will topple the US monopoly in much. Don't forget that much of the US brains in technology or medecine are Indians. They would naturally seek to go back to India as the quality of life is superior now to the US.

China will become the next industrial pole and obviously generate much of the worlds polution. However, we could no longer consider them as under developped either?

so who is left ? if you are refering to the natives in the south american rainforest then well I don't think that they could do much?

If you are refering to the nomade tribes of the sahara? I don't think that their camel poo pollutes much the environment?

Sorry, but it is the duty of the developping countries to take their responsbilities and stop producing cars that drink 30 litres to 100 km for example.

We must stop producing those beautiful hummvees or oversize jeep commanders. Or rather stop producing oversized engines for these lovely cars. Cars pollute ok, but the oversized engines further do.

Answer 7

dude, developed countries are the ones destroying the environment. That's why they're so developed! Because of the factories and machineries, a lot of developing countries still have virgin forests and unexplored environments which could be the key of earth's future.

Answer 8

Developed countries are the only ones who CARE about the environment. Look at Communist Russia. In those days they dumped radioactive crap wherever the Party said to and to hell with the damage. Look at modern China-- some of the worst polluted cities in the world.

Only those of us in rich, stable, democratic countries care about protecting the environment.

Only countries with political freedom (democracies again) put up with the outraged, and possibly politically embarrassing complaints about animal welfare and the environment by their citizens.

Those other guys care more about feeding themselves and their families, bettering their financial situations, and earning the expensive toys we (developed democracies again...) take for granted

Answer 9

That's really two questions. The first is easy: developed contries consume far more than their per capita share of resources and create far more than their per capita share of waste.

The second, I'm not so sure about. Part of what developed countries can do is help provide and fund clean technologies to developing countries, so that they can move into industrial economies with minimal ecological impact.

Answer 10

Yes. By not burning lots of fossil fuels, and not damming up their rivers, and not dumping sludge into the ocean, they will be preserving the environment. But developing coutnries usually dont' do any of this anyway, because their industry levels are so low.

It is the amount of production we do that necessitates our need to conserve. If you don't use much, you don't need to conserve much!

Answer 11

Because undeveloped countries can't affort to waste the environment. Conservation efforts there would be a matter of choice between sustenance and conservations.