Reference: Deforestation talks stall over cash schemes, Bangkok Post, August 24, 2008

The rich nations got rich and stay rich by consuming a disproportionate amount of energy per capita, and so rich are they that they can apparently afford to pay developing countries to stop developing so that they may continue to hog the world's energy (Deforestation talks stall over cash schemes, Bangkok Post, August 24, 2008).

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand