Cancun Climate Change Summit Calls for Rationing in the Rich World

Halting growth in the rich world could mean making adjustments in everyday life such as using public transportation instead of your car, they say

But are the same Americans who have no qualms about selectively aborting future generations ready to surrender recreational driving for the sake of those future generations they elect to keep?

TELEGRAPH Dec 2010 | "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.

"Unless emissions are reduced dramatically in the next ten years the world is set to see…

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