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Climate Change: It's not too late, according to the UK government
Posted by bex on 31 October 2006.
In a UK review on climate change, British economist and government advisor Sir Nicholas Stern has said that "climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen," but that there "is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we act now and act internationally."
Which is exactly what we have been saying all along (while getting accused of "climate porn"). The scientific and moral cases for acting against climate change have been known for some time - but ironically, it's taken an economist to spur governments into action. Show me the money...
Read more on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change »
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