Environmental equality

As part of the Copenhagen deal on the environment the Sahara nations demanded that the northern nations supply them with their excess water, so that their people will not suffer the effects of drought. After all is it fair that some nations have excess water and some have too little. The Scandinavian nations led by Norway agreed that in principle this was correct, they could not bear to see human suffering when it could be alleviated. So they have agreed to a 10 billion euro deal to build a water pipeline from the tip of Norway to the coast of Libya, from where the water will be distributed to neighboring countries. Initially water will be delivered by tankers and trucks until the massive pipeline is completed in 2025.
In the end it is conceived that all men will be equal and that the rich counties will share their wealth and their water with the poor countries. So eventually, around 2050, the Sahara will be "greened" and the local inhabitants will throw off their dashikis and turbans and run around in skimpy swimming trunks under the sprinklers, just like Norwegians, and in the end everyone will be the same!
Of course, the above is not true, but the outcome of the climate conference in Copenhagen sounds very much like this. The poor countries, some of them extensive polluters, like India, will be paid a huge sum amounting to billions of dollars to repay them for the damage and suffering that has resulted from global warming due to the industialization of the rich countries. But, the situation is getting to be farcical...Iran is demanding that the West repay it for the restoration of the Shah that took place in 1953, the Sudanese President, Head of the developing countries bloc at the UN, compared the environmental damage done by the West to the Holocaust, and Pres Chavez of Venzuela called all such repayment schemes an American plot.
Certainly there is a danger that some poor low-lying countries like Fiji and Bangladesh will be flooded in the future and their people will be in danger. But, if the rich countries became rich by industrializing why should they pay for this unanticipated phenomenon, surely they can voluntarily pay to help people avoid drowning in specific cases, but why they should pay an indemnity as if they carried out some criminal act. The Copenhagen Conference will not only be remembered as a turning point for the world tackling global warming, but also as the beginning of the blackmail by the world's poorest countries of the richest ones to assuage their conscience at despoiling the earth.