| "The United Nations Climate Summit,is a clubby gathering of world leaders and their representatives who will try to figure out ways to reward polluters for pretending to fix a problem for which they're responsible in the first place; a fiasco...There was a time when governments dealt with international threats. Now, as the columnist George Monbiot says, they "propose everything except the obvious solution -- legislation." Rather, they will talk, commission panels, invoke market-based solutions and even offer subsidies to industry, rather than say, for example, "Wealthy nations are reducing emissions globally by 8 to 10 percent per year, beginning now." By Klein's estimates, that's precisely what it will take to avoid catastrophe and that is precisely what we are not going to see." |
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