ABSTRACT
One important insight driven home by the greenhouse effect is that gross international inequity and ecological maintenance are fundamentally incompatible. In fact, the global environmental crisis and the warming threat could bring about a realignment of international policies that goes far beyond the control of greenhouse gases in the narrow sense (Reddy 1989): historically, industrialized countries have for the most part allied themselves with Third World elites at the expense ofbasic-needs oriented development. In view of the global environmental consequences, these alliances have now become anachronistic. Solutions to the global warming problem and related environmental threats will necessitate satisfYing basic needs everywhere.
