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No penguins in my garden

From Post-Autistic Economics Review, Frank Ackerman (Tufts): Economics for a Warming World; and an essay on climate change, global ethics and the market. From the Carnegie Council, a conversation on the ethics of climate change and the global economy. It’s too late for later: Delay is not an option in the battle against climate change. How significant is Bali’s climate deal? Here are some reactions. Was America the villain in Bali? George Monbiot on how the world was suckered by the US once again. It's up to Europe to save the world: The US, so keen on flexing its muscles in world politics under President George W. Bush, has ceded global leadership to the Europeans in tackling climate change. Gore's PR for the Planet: The global warming campaign will really begin in 2008 (and more by Elizabeth Kolbert). No penguins in my garden: Environmental campaigners should remember that people are more motivated to avoid losses than they are to acquire gains. The best thing women can do to ease global warming: "Stop admiring young men in Ferraris". A review of Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics by Ronald L. Sandler. An interview with the head of the International Energy Agency, Nobuo Tanaka: "Every human should have the same right to produce CO2". Kangaroo farts could fight global warming: Really, we couldn't make this shit up.