The technologies of India and China, although some are new (informatics), for the most part are based on the fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas). Some regions of China and India, and tribal peoples around the world, are sacrificed to coal, copper, bauxite, gold mining. The frontiers of oil extraction reach deep into Amazonia. Attempts to get redress from transnationals such as Chevron-Texaco and Dow Chemical are unsuccessful.

The world will reach the peak of the Hubbert curve for oil in a few decades. This is furthering a militarization of the world, as we see in Irak. The alternative of nuclear power is really no alternative - India is planning to increase electricity power by 300,000 MW, it is totally irrealistic to think that nuclear power will make a difference. Three hundred new nuclear plants would be required, when the maximum expected in the horizon of 2020 is twenty. Nevertheless, we see the building of dangerous breeder reactors, and around the world a close connection (as in the West) between military nuclear power and civil nuclear power. Nuclear waste is dangerous for our own generation and for future generations.

Carbon dioxide emissions increase in the world, causing climate change

The Kyoto protocol is better than Bush, but it really does not make yet a difference. The extreme unequality in carbon dioxide emissions continues. One citizen of the United States emits on average 7 tons of carbon, one from India, half a ton. Rich people have appropriated de facto the main carbon sinks (oceans, new vegetation) and the atmosphere as a temporary reservoir. This is the reason for the great "carbon debt" from North to South.

Biodiversity disappears

The biomass available for other species will decrease even further as more biofuels (ethanol, biodiesel) are produced. Tree plantations and uprooting of mangroves continue to threaten livelihoods in the South. The "biopiracy" by northern pharmaceutical and seed companies also continues. While some organizations naively ask for larger access to Northern markets, in reality we see that the European Union imports four times more tons than it exports, while Latin America exports six times more tons than it imports. In Europe we put no barriers to gas, oil, and phosphates imports from Africa, while we cruelly prevent people's immigration. There is an ecologically unequal trade in the world, another big item in the Ecological Debt.