Tackling the fossil fuel juggernaut (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Valencia

So here, as Australians say, is "the big ask".

You have a global economy that depends on fossil fuel use.

Our economies grow primarily by increasing fossil fuel use, particularly coal, the most polluting form.

And you have a decade to turn it around without letting economic growth slide away.

This, in a nutshell, is the challenge set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) synthesis of its 2007 global assessment.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7100039.stm

"without letting economic growth slide away" ... uh ... say what? Why should that be a limiting parameter? Sure, we want to minimize economic damage, but there is no way we can sustain the delusion that constant economic growth is the only option for a healthy society. Reading to the end of the editorial, the author apparently agrees.

[Demeter]

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