The Bali "Roadmap" and Environmental Double Standards

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[Jared] Diamond undoubtedly thinks well of the UN Climate Change Conference held in Bali, Indonesia, December 3-14, 2007. It is easy for more reasonable people to poke fun at this gathering. As colder weather swept through the northern latitudes, delegates headed for a tropical resort to complain about “global warming.” They then spent two weeks in luxurious surroundings, calling on more common folk to cut back on their materialism. But behind the more pretentious statements about “green” lifestyles and mankind’s allegedly harmful effects on the environment, old fashioned realpolitik was much in evidence.