Make climate change a policy principle - or drown in debt

Interesting discussion of UK treasury policy and the lack of envirnmental seriousness -indeed prudence- in it. "the moment economic policy drops anchor in the reality of environmental limits, contradictions emerge. For the whole world to enjoy UK levels of consumption would require the biocapacity of three planets like Earth. Living beyond our environmental means quickly leads to trouble. For instance, Brown's substantial manoeuvring to advance the international community on debt relief and aid issues is undermined by the Treasury's relative blind spot, to date, on global warming. Every one of the millennium development goals Brown supports stands to be blown away by climate change."

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