The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Optimism of the Pocketbook

The vice-president of the intergovernmental panel on climate change has predicted "a situation where the rich live in enclaves, protected, and the poor live outside in unsustainable conditions", unless governments act to curb greenhouse emissions. He also noted that "developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change and the poorest people will be the hardest hit"; for example, Bangladesh could lose seventeen per cent of its territory, much of it highly populated, to the sea. Fortunately, "in some countries you do find that rich people live in those kind of protected environments"; in other words, the means are already in place whereby the rich can be protected.

It is possible that the vice-president of the intergovernmental panel on climate change thought that these tidings would encourage governments to take rapid and decisive action to curb greenhouse emissions; particularly as he believes that "the consequences of failure are unimaginable" and the profits no doubt incalculable.

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