Should developing countries participate in Global Climate debate?

They shouldn't participate in the debate but more importantly they shouldn't follow the industrial nations path to development. Paying to build their infrastructure using the same model as the developing nations makes little sense at this time. The cost to modernize requires energy and the cost of natural energy sources will soon be out of reach for most developing nations. They should seek to follow a different path, they shouldn't to follow the same path. At the end of the day, we (industrialized countries) are working with a flawed model, a model that says that primary resources are infinite. That simply isn't true, eventually we'll be faced with the prospect of having exhausted all the natural resources that are available and then move to a new system. Meanwhile developing countries are continually playing catch up. Now is the time to move to a new model. China realizes this and while they are fiercely competing on the world market for natural resources they are also leading the way in alternative energy source.

There have been many new developments that were achieved in the past two decades that we simply don't hear about but because they haven't found a way to "monetize" it, it is not being mass produced. NASA conducted an experiment by deploying a tether in space that would convert ambient electromagnetic energy into electricity. The experiment was so successful the power surge blew the tether off from the space shuttle. Imagine if we could deploy an antennae that converts the ambient electromagnetic field into electricity to power our houses. An entire energy economy would collapse.

This stuff is out there and all it would take is a visionary to implement it. Granted that visionary would most likely become a target by current power base structures but once the genie is let out of the bottle it will be difficult to put it back in.