16 April 2004

This'll get you going

Russian Presidential economic adviser Andrei Illarionov has really let rip; this is a good article to cut your teeth on: spot the wrongnesses of the metaphor of the Kyoto protocol as a gulag.... it relies on the idea that emitting fossil carbon is like eating. You wonder whether this guy has really understood the bigger picture. How do people like this get these jobs? It would be laughable if the implications for the rest of us and our children weren't so serious.

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