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Global warming is all about inequality, both in who will suffer most its effects and in who created the problem in the first place. This article describes the inequality empirically in broad strokes and then describes how it has led to the current deadlock in dealing with the problem of global climate change. Regarding bargaining positions in the Kyoto round of negotiations, two factions among rich nations and at least five distinct bargaining positions among poor nations are described and explained. The factional divisions are attributable to the differential influence of "polluting elites" across nations. The article concludes that the only way out of the conundrum of inequity and warming is by both addressing inequality and delinking carbon and development.
J. Timmons Roberts (Sun,) studied this question.