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

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On the point: Business as usual

Hansen says that a leader is needed; "We don't have a leader who is able to grasp it [climate change] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual." He accuses the developed world of actively wanting to keep things as business as usual so they have to do as little as possible, and believes that any result from this conference will be just that.

This does not seem like business as usual, increasingly governments are going further and further, the idea that many of the countries that have now made big pledges to reduce emissions would be willing to offer such reductions even a few months ago seemed very unlikely.

Yes, because... Business as usual

 

No, because...

Hansen says that a leader is needed; "We don't have a leader who is able to grasp it [climate change] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual." He accuses the developed world of actively wanting to keep things as business as usual so they have to do as little as possible, and believes that any result from this conference will be just that.

 

This does not seem like business as usual, increasingly governments are going further and further, the idea that many of the countries that have now made big pledges to reduce emissions would be willing to offer such reductions even a few months ago seemed very unlikely.