Green, grow or guilt?

JUDGING from the bun fights at international conferences on the environment, the West appreciates the need to go green while emerging economies prefer growth. However a survey released this week of consumer actions and attitudes overturns this customary narrative. The latest National Geographic and GlobeScan survey, called the Greendex, shows nearly diametrically opposed behaviours and opinions between people in rich, industrialised countries and poor, developing ones. When the data from 17 countries are plotted on a chart, it forms an eerily consistent, near-linear, roughly 45 degree slope. See full Article.