Posted: Nov 15, 2012 4:44 am
Precambrian Rabbi wrote:So - to get this straight - you think that smaller countries should be lobbying larger, more powerful, countries whilst doing nothing themselves? Otherwise they're being hypocritical?
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke
When you are talking about the reality of a world economic and trade situation where the big guys have all the power and the small guys have little power, yes indeed. Why change our ways and make us less competitive when our opposition doesn't have to do anything?
That won't help the climate...but it will help the economies of the countries that aren't bound by the same red tape we are slapping all over ourselves...