This is what the President of Brazil had to say back in July:
"The United States has more responsibility than China; Europe has more responsibility than South America or Africa," Lula said.
China has replaced the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases because of its fast-growing economy and dependence on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Brazil also has large emissions due to extensive, albeit falling, destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Burning or decomposing trees emit carbon dioxide.
Of course, no mention of Brazilian energy company Petrobras and their commitment to drill offshore in Brazil.
Also keep in mind that the Brazilians were considered pioneers in ethanol refined from their vast reserves of sugarcane. Petrobras going after oil and natural gas deposits in their own reigon is an about-face from Lula's own statements and the accolades bestowed upon Brazil for it's sugarcane-based ethanol production.
But then again, the fossil fuels PetroBras has committed to extract are probably much more reliable than their hydroelectric power sources.
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Once they have crippled our economy the UN will no longer be on a climate change crusade. For it is only those evil North American greenhouse gasses that are responsible, the rest is just natural cyclic activity that the earth goes through.
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