Climate change: human numbers don't add up | Peter Preston | Comment is free | The Guardian

The best way to cut emissions is to have fewer babies – but you won't find it in the Cancún bulletin, or any politician's vision
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Save the planet? Somehow it seems so last year. Cancún – a climate change summit of modest achievement – rates 81 sparse lines of coverage in the Sunday Times, while Chris Huhne's apparent decision not to move in with his mistress rates 118. The BBC, having overspent on Chile's miners, duly hacked back on coverage of Mexico's major meeting. I didn't see one global warming placard in Parliament Square the other day. Protesting youth has other things on its mind.

You can explain the fading of interest – and fear – in many ways, of course. Too much snow in November. Too many lectures from the pope.