[DugwayDuke]

"Why must it be blamed on industry and, in particular, the West?"

Simply because it is a convienient scam to transfer wealth from the US to the 3rd world. The ulitmate objective works like this. You take the worlds production of CO2 and divide by the worlds population to get a per capita value. Then you assign carbon quotas to each nation. Obviously, the US will produce more CO2 than it's quota while 3rd world nations will produce less. Under this system the US can 'buy' unused carbon quotas from the 3rd world. IOW, if you want to heat your home you pay a tax to the 3rd world.

[Smokin' Joe]

Simply because it is a convienient scam to transfer wealth from the US to the 3rd world.

You are on to something..

And who will the brokers of the transfer be? cashing in on every transaction?(Hint: No food for oil!)

[MonroeDNA]

"Simply because it is a convenient scam to transfer wealth from the US to the 3rd world."

Close, but it is really about transferring wealth from capitalists to socialists.

Socialists cannot compete, and must resort to subtrefuge.