Oct 28, 2006

Spend, spend, spend plan to tackle warming

Guardian: Line up all of the world's economists end to end, the old joke goes, and they would still fail to reach a conclusion. By Monday afternoon the gag could sound a little hollow. Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, may not speak for all of his colleagues across the globe, but he appears to have reached a startling conclusion: climate change could tip the world economy into a terrible recession and we must start spending serious money to stop it. Commissioned ...Link (via EcologicalInternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry)