There is a lot of talk about frogleaping developing nations into sustainable commodities use, and I'm all for stimulating it. Yet I turn up the heat in my house in my neighbourhood in the Netherlands, where there is little insulation, a mediocre recycling scheme, a new coal plant being built in Rotterdam, a flush toilet wasting 10 litres of drinking water.
The development for reduction and recycling resources is in the first place in the court of the western nations, and not the developing nations who still look to western nations as an example how to get out of debilitating poverty - which is their right.
