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Fresh from the Cancun UN Climate Conference: Rationing

The Telegraph
2010 11 29

By Louise Gray

Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world

Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.

In a series of papers published by the Royal Society, physicists and chemists from some of world’s most respected scientific institutions, including Oxford University and the Met Office, agreed that current plans to tackle global warming are not enough….[preceding link by folc.ca]

….the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years….

…politicians should consider a rationing system similar to the one introduced during the last “time of crisis” in the 1930s and 40s….(Full Story)

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