It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern's report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it. Useful as this finding is, I hope it doesn't mean that the debate will now concentrate on money. The principal costs of climate change will be measured in lives, not pounds. As Stern reminded us yesterday, there would be a moral imperative to seek to prevent mass death even if the economic case did not stack up.

He has a list of 10 major items, on fast track. Very positive, very exciting. Much better than mass starvation. Well worth readin at http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/1031-21.htm

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