Originally Posted by GAH

Many country's population have given up trying to do something about global warming, by recycling, reducing emissions and paying extra for a product that does less to harm the atmosphere. Then they look at China, India and USA and what little effort they do, and have ever done. When it comes to talks between nations it is these three that spoil it for the rest every time for the past 40 years. Now, with things really taking effect, icecaps melting, seas levels rising, stronger hurricanes, warmer and colder temperatures and strange weather hitting America, China engulfed in smog and the rest of the world taking the brunt, you'd expect some of those countries to wake up like the rest of the world has, but no, they haven't. It's a bit like the last two world wars, it takes some countries a little longer to smell the coffee and join in (hint). Oh well, maybe by the middle of the century they will, China will eventually realise they have been eating rhino toenails thinking it was an aphrodisiac (once rhinos are extinct within the next decade or two) and Japan will stop hunting whales after they admit they are mammals. Could happen, by the end of the century?