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...There was no policy to attack civilians, there were no systematic plans, no genocide or crimes against humanity.' GENERAL WIRANTO, retired Indonesian military commander, denying persistent allegations of human-rights abuses committed by Indonesian troops during East Timor's 1999 independence movement, in a hearing before the Indonesia and East Timor Commission of Truth and Friendship...
...Indonesian capital of Jakarta, traffic moves as slowly as blood through a corpse. Streams of motorcycles part for SUVs and diesel-spewing buses, and everyone gets nowhere fast. The air is smeared, both from the vehicle exhaust and the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rain forests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since equatorial trees soak up carbon dioxide when they're alive and release the gas when they're cut down...
...Keep Indonesia in mind as the world digests the third and final chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest assessment on global warming, which was released last week in Bangkok. While the first two sections made for depressing reading-nailing down the scientific basis for global warming and laying out nightmare scenarios of the havoc climate change could wreak-the last chapter is comparatively optimistic. Drawing on the work of thousands of scientists vetted by officials from over 100 countries, the IPCC reported that future carbon emissions could be controlled using current technology like nuclear...
...while the technological path to climate-change action is clear, the politics are getting more complicated. As economic growth shifts to the developing world-especially Asia-so will future carbon emissions. Whether the world can effectively combat climate change will be determined by countries like Indonesia and India-and particularly China, which could pass the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter any day. European nations have staked out bold positions on carbon cutting, and momentum is growing in the U.S. for real climate-change legislation. But if developing countries choose to ignore global warming, even the most radical...
...growth through the end of the century. Those costs will have to be borne by someone, and the developing nations will rightly push for North America and Europe to pick up the check. Expect that argument to be renewed at the next major U.N. climate-change meeting in Bali, Indonesia, at the end of the year...