12.25.09
What the failure of the climate talks means
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This is what the failure of the climate talks means.
by George Monbiot
Published in the Guardian (December 21 2009)
The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha in 2001.
After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
assured the delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to
Mexico, where a deal would be done. The negotiations ran into the sand of
the Mexican resort of Cancun, never to re-emerge. After eight years of
dithering, nothing has been agreed.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/21/requiem-for-a-crowded-planet/