Monday, January 7, 2013

Climate Change and Poverty: The Post-Crisis Crises | Common Dreams

Climate Change and Poverty: The Post-Crisis Crises | Common Dreams
"The most serious is global warming. While the global economy's weak performance has led to a corresponding slowdown in the increase in carbon emissions, it amounts to only a short respite. And we are far behind the curve: because we have been so slow to respond toclimate change achieving the targeted limit of a 2C rise in global temperature will require sharp reductions in emissions in the future.
Some suggest that, given the economic slowdown, we should put global warming on the backburner. On the contrary, retrofitting the global economy for climate change would help to restore aggregate demand and growth."