Can you not see that USA/UK is "KING OF THE NORTH"??????? Here is documentation. Remember when we were referred to as Western civilization?
Western society may refer to:
- Western culture, a term used to refer to the cultures of people of European origin and their descendants.
- Western world, countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture, such as the countries of the Americas and most of Oceania.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_civilization
No longer! We are now referred to as the industrialized NORTH.
India, China, and other poorer countries with fast-growing economies said they were ready to limit their own emissions, keeping them lower, on a per person basis, than those in the already-industrialized North. This Associated Press story conveyed their stance: “I cannot accept the argument that I, as a Chinese, am only entitled legally to one quarter of what you are entitled to,” he told AP. But, he added, “being equal to an American when it comes to per capita emissions would be a nightmare for the Chinese.” http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/imagine-everyone-was-equal-in-emissions/
Latin America could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 55 million tons through the sale of carbon credits. But this strategy doesn't convince the critics, who ask if the region would foment clean and renewable energy sources or would merely sell cheap carbon credits to the highest bidder from the industrialized North.
http://www.tierramerica.net/2004/1120/iarticulo.shtml
GLOBAL NORTH, INDUSTRIALIZED NORTH, ECONOMIC NORTH
(We are constantly referred to as the NORTH )
Climate change may be the biggest North-South co-operation challenge the world has ever faced. Climate change is not only a global environment issue but also a North-South equity issue. According to the Stockholm Environment Institute, even if the North fails to curb emissions and relies on adapting to climate change it still must face the geopolitical, demographic, economic, and human problems that will spill over.... The North-driven scientific process often places developing country concerns low on the priority list. http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/14-Ch14(373-392).pdf Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North This study of capitalism in the industrialized North demystifies much of the cant that surrounds this discourse, and offers searching analyses of a series of cultural phenomena that have emerged in Germany, Britain and the United States during the 1990s. http://www.politicos.co.uk/books/86484.htm