Environment
Natural burden
| Climate exchange |
| Unfair share of cause and effect |
Ecological damages are distributed more towards poor nations
| Human activities have contributed to six major classes of ecological damages | ||||
| Climate change | Ozone depletion | |||
| Deforestation | Overfishing | |||
| Agricultural intensification | Mangrove conversion | |||
| The Industrialized world has imposed climate change on poor countries. Ecological damages caused by climate change in these countries is much more than their foreign debt | ||||
Source Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, February 5, 2008