Those climate talks in Copenhagen

Just as we suspected, it came down to all talk and no action, because nobody wants to settle for less of anything, even if it means as much as this does.

Here's a good piece about it in today's Globe and Mail, by Norman Spector, who has been around the halls of government and the media for a long time. 


If people are angry now about this lack of action, wait until they are told that the real problem is that there's simply too many of us making too much pollution. In my lifetime alone, the world's population has tripled from a little over two billion in 1932 to over 6.8 billion now. No matter what we believe about science, religion, human rights, or anything else, we simply can't keep on endlessly increasing the numbers of people the world must support. It's simply not possible, and we ought to be thinking about that now, before it becomes a much more severe problem.