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Started by pbrayton, 12/13/2011 05:22PM
Posted 12/13/2011 05:22PM Opening Post
A friend sent me this. Doesn't seem like such a bad idea to me.

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Posted 12/18/2011 12:01AM #1
Except that those efforts are currently costing one trillion dollars per year and have accomplished nothing but killing jobs, and the cartoon's theme has nothing to do with what the Durban climate conference is about. Professor Motl explains what it is about in his review of the Durban summary document:

The whole document is a kind of a hardcore Marxist rant. Everything that is important in this document is about the class struggle. The whole world is being divided to the rich and the poor. These two groups are treated totally differently: CO2 is a different chemical compound in different parts of the world. The word "developed" appears 236 times (!) in the document. You also find four references to the "climate debt". What a theoretical construct! You may also learn about the "rights of Mother Earth", "rights of Nature", and especially "rights of indigenous people" (five times in the text). The human rights are "especially" the rights of women, children, migrants, and indigenous people. Sorry, men!