Whack the poor and financing the global warming fight

The FT headlines scream "Public backing for deep China emission cuts". Only they did not ask the Chinese, just the citizen's of the countries most responsible for our present problems. Said citizen's also said that money should not be handed over to China, India and the rest of poor suckers who did not spew enough coal and oil dust into the air over the last 100 years.

Unfortunately, given that these are democracies, the citizen's will get what they want - no dough to us poor boys. Our asinine governments should factor that in to their silly calculations.

Although, there is a way that could be supported by most non US governments and that will give us the 'technology' that we crave, though not financing. So it is a good way to flush out what it is we want - dough or stuff.

Abrogate patents on the technologies that we need. A small class of companies will be hit, though if their governments are serious about mitigating warming they should be able to make money from patent protected markets. And we get to combat global warming and build a nice new industry, just as we did the our generic drug industry.

Getting the tech should be dead easy - there is not a damn environmental technology company not riddled with Desi's. If they ain't the boss, there is no criminality and they can make a buck - Bengaluru Zindabad.

From the FT:

Public backing for deep China emission cuts

By Fiona Harvey in London

Published: October 18 2009 22:26 | Last updated: October 18 2009 22:26

Public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic is firmly in favour of China taking on the lion’s share of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and lukewarm on providing funds to the developing world to adapt to climate change.