Environment damage of rich countries on poor

A study has revealed the extent to which poorer countries are trampled by the huge environmental footprints of the rich.

The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them almost
Meanwhile, the effect of poor on rich nations, such as Britain, is less than a third of the impact that the rich have on the poor.

Because the global environment does not respect political borders, the impact of ecological damage wrought by one country can be felt across the world. To illustrate that point, an American team has attempted to determine which nations are driving ecological damage and which are paying the price.

The study, led by former University of California, Berkeley, research fellow Thara Srinivasan, assessed the impacts of agricultural intensification and expansion, deforestation, overfishing, loss of mangrove swamps and forests, ozone depletion and climate change from 1961 to 2000.

Telegraph