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    for two reasons. ... A nation is not a moral entity but...

    Devoloped countries have a moral obligation to lessen the effects of climate change

    Despite forfeiting in the last round I will assume that you will post in the final round. A developed country does not have the moral obligation to mitigate the effects of climate change (assuming this is natural climate change instead of human induced climate change.) for two reasons. 1. A nation is not a moral entity but is a vessel led by moral groups or individuals. A nation whose leader has no morals has no obligations to lessen the effects of climate change because the nation being an entity that has no morals there further augmented by the leader who has no morals. 2. Natural climate change is the natural process that Earth has caused for the past 4.5 billion or longer years ago. The global climate change has occurred at a rapid rate during the late 20th-early 21st century, but to mitigate the effects of a natural change is implausible and disruptive in that humans are denying the Earth to change.