“..or all its complexity, the core of this problem can be stated simply enough: ..
.. What kind of a climate transition would be fair enough to actually work?
First, a confession: This is not another enumeration of confident judgments.
I will not tell you that Copenhagen was an unmitigated failure. Or that this failure was Obama’s fault.
Or that, as is the new fashion, China was the ugliest of them all.
I will not say that the South’s negotiators made impossible demands.
Or argue that the United Nations’ process is unwieldy and obsolete.
I will not claim that only domestic US action really matters.
Nor will I talk of a “North-South impasse†or a “US-China polluters pact,†two popular formulations that misleadingly imply an equal division of blame.
I will say this: Almost two decades after I started working on climate change, I was happily astounded to witness the crystallization, on the streets of Copenhagen, of a grassroots movement that was both energetic and sophisticated ..
.. and to see global civil society groups working in solidarity with the leaders of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations to press a collective agenda.
And I can tell you something else: ..
.. Our chances of preventing climate catastrophe rests in large part on the ability of this new alliance to communicate to the world’s richest and most powerful peoples that the emissions emergency is, above all things ..
.. a crisis of justice..”
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