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10/02/2007: "Global warming caused by developing countries"

Japan had pretty low emissions per capita when it signed Kyoto. But now emissions from cars and transportation are up by 18 percent; home emissions are up 37 percent. Yatsu says that's because more people are living alone and people have more appliances.

There is a sense in some corners that the Kyoto accord has been unfair to Japan.

"It's like I'm sweeping in front of my house, but someone is dropping trash from the sky," Takada says. "Developing countries are emitting huge amounts of CO2, like India, China, the United States and Canada."

[ As industrialized nations decay, the "developing" (read: collapsed former great empires who succumbed to multiculturalism and commerce) world is going to exceed the emissions of industrialized nations by a factor of ten, which is roughly the differential in population. ]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14087783