De Boer - lack of faith in green growth to blame

[raspberry-blower]

The former head of the UN climate change secretariat yesterday offered arguably his most detailed assessment yet of last year's Copenhagen Summit and the prospects for an international climate change deal.

Writing in the magazine Nature, Yvo de Boer admitted chances of success at Copenhagen had been undermined by a lack of clarity over how a final deal should be constructed and "widespread fear that ambitious climate-change policy will damage economic growth".

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Shorthand for "Sod the planet, we're all too busy chasing after worthless I.O.U.s to care"

[emordnilap]

This is the problem with these hippies, damaging growth. That's the perception.

It's like a conversation once I had with a fisherman who was moaning about quotas being cut. He'd happily fish till there were none left but along come the greens, threatening his job. Disconnect.