PEOPLE will be five times as rich in a hundred years’ time. And if we are willing to postpone that prosperity by just two years, we could fix global warming into the bargain.
That’s the startling conclusion of leading US climate scientist Stephen Schneider and Swedish energy economist Christian Azar, who are about to publish a bruising assault on the Bush administration’s claims that international plans to curb climate change would cripple the US and world economies.
“The wild rhetoric about enslaving the poor and bankrupting the economy to do climate policy is fallacious, even if one accepts the conventional economic models,” Schneider told New Scientist.…
