[lbo-talk] not much time to avert catastrophic temp rise

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 4/10/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [Carrol Cox says it's already too late, so there's really no urgent
> need to do something now, but apparently the IPCC disagrees.]
>
> Little time to avert big temperature rise: U.N. study
> By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
<snip>
> That would mark a switch: in 2000, rich nations accounted for 20
> percent of world population and 46 percent of emissions.
>
> Another U.N. report on the regional impact of climate change on April
> 6 predicted more hunger and water shortages in Africa and Asia,
> rising seas worldwide, floods and heatwaves. In February, the first
> U.N. report concluded there was more than a 90 percent likelihood
> that humans were to blame for warming.

The truth is that there is an urgent need to cut greenhouse gases NOW,
but there's a great mismatch between the biggest polluters -- rich
nations -- and most of the present and future victims -- the poor in
general, but especially the poor in the global South -- so nothing
much will be done in time, except perhaps more nuclear power
production and more biofuels that make food prices go up and make the
poor suffer in another way.
-- 
Yoshie