"Let's face it, [the developing countries] are not responsible for the problem"
india? china? any turd world nation? only developed countries are looking at and are concerned about emissions. Only they have the infrastructure which provides for a EPA or support monitoring groups.
oooh man..... I hate the smell of methane. these guys gotta rethink their criticisms.
A very rough ballpark comparison...
Each pound of wood produces about 2.59 pounds of CO2.
Each gallon of gasoline produces about 20 pounds of CO2.
The USA burns somewhere around 250,000,000 gallons gasoline per day, that making about 5 billion pounds of CO2 daily.
There are about 2.6 billion people using cooking fires daily; assuming a very low estimate of 1 pound of wood burned per person per day, that's close to 7 billion pounds of CO2 daily - reality several times that.
So daily,
Gasoline use in USA: 5B lbs CO2.
Cooking fires worldwide: 7B lbs CO2 minimum, 20-50B lbs more likely.
So ... some 300M people, admittedly relatively heavy producers per capita of CO2, is being beat up for their contribution to "global warming", while the rest of the world, producing several times as much CO2 total, is given a free pass. It's the cumulative totals that ultimately matter, not the per-capita (which even if they dropped their CO2 production to zero could only reduce total world cumulative CO2 production by a few percent).
I'll grant we should all strive to reduce our pollution output. ...so what's being done about 2.6 billion 3rd-world cooking fires daily?