All nations share the responsibility to address the problem of global climate change. But historically the industrial economies have been responsible for the highest emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists suggest are causing the warming trend. Also significant wealth technological sophistication and entrepreneurial creativity give these nations a greater capacity to find useful responses to this problem. To avoid greater impact energy resource adjustments must be made both in the policies of richer countries and in the development paths of poorer ones.
US Catholic Bishops Conference Global Climate Change 2001
from JusticE-mail 23 March 2011