Rich nations 'give up' on new climate treaty until 2020
Given how much "the can" has been kicked down the road in the euro crisis, despite its immediate and palpable danger, hardly surprising that the climate can is also getting a good kicking, since even though more threatening (the warnings from the scientific community are ever more worrying, especially regarding the closing "window of opportunity" to make any impact), less tangible.
It seems that in world affairs, as in crime, humans are deterred not by the magnitude of the penalty, but how real they feel the danger of getting caught is, and climate change is too unreal in day to day life, yet....
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