FNs Generalsekreterare Ban Ki Moon har vaknat upp och insett vidden av klimatförändringarna. Nu skriver han som saken International Herald Tribune:
Climate change is real, and we humans are its chief cause. Yet even now, few people fully understand the gravity of the threat, or its immediacy.
Certainly I did not. It was only after I took a recent fact-finding ”eco tour” of vulnerable regions that I realized the true magnitude of the danger. I have always considered global warming to be a matter of utmost urgency.
Now I believe we are on the verge of a catastrophe if we do not act.
Vi behöver att dessa tunga namn bekräftar detta för att det ska bli allmän vetskap. Därför är artikeln otroligt värdefull. Såhär avslutas artikeln:
All this sets the stage for the critical UN Climate Change Summit in Bali two weeks from now. We need a break-through: an agreement to launch serious negotiations for a comprehensive climate change deal that all nations can embrace.
The challenge will be to lay out an achievable agenda of issues, from transferring alternative energy technologies to helping developing nations finance their own programs for fighting and adapting to climate change.
We are all responsible for this. Climate change respects no borders; solutions must be global.
Vi behöver helt enkelt globala utsläppsrätter, som innefattar flyget. Och/eller en global koldioxidskatt. Även en väldigt låg sådan skulle göra enorm skillnad.