It would be better if the Copenhagen conference failed and we start again from scratch

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On the point: No room for compromises

For Hansen the issue of climate change "is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill," he said. "On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%."

This is not at all like slavery or Nazism. There was a reasonably easy solution to slavery, it did not necessarily cost much and did not require a vast international deal. Winston Churchill is a better analagy, but during the rise of nazism he was out in the cold - the same kind of position the Green party is in, little chance of power, we are still at 1938 and munich not yet to 1940 and Churchill taking over.

Yes, because... No room for compromises

 

No, because...

For Hansen the issue of climate change "is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill," he said. "On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%."

 

This is not at all like slavery or Nazism. There was a reasonably easy solution to slavery, it did not necessarily cost much and did not require a vast international deal. Winston Churchill is a better analagy, but during the rise of nazism he was out in the cold - the same kind of position the Green party is in, little chance of power, we are still at 1938 and munich not yet to 1940 and Churchill taking over.