As obvious as it may sound, developing countries need more fast-paced development, not moral policing on matters of energy, development, and environment. The onset of the twenty-first century saw the international community coerce developing nations into adopting economy-choking environmental policies. Earlier environmental laws focused on more tangible and empirically verifiable environmental problems, like deforestation and toxic air and water pollution.  But in recent decades, attention has turned toward global warming, which has become the most talked about sociopolitical environmental issue, impacting every decision made by governments and institutions. When it comes to energy and development, developing countries have been on the receiving end of things.  The anti–fossil fuel resolutions made by the international community require poor countries to reduce their use of conventional energy sources and adopt less certain, newer technologies...(Read Full Post)