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...scientific debate over global warming may largely be over, but the ethical debate rages on. Some NGOs and their political sympathizers insist that climate change is the fault of the affluent who must atone for the sin of industrialization. No unnecessary travel, thermostats turned down, no luxury homes or supersized SUVs. This call for penance is combined with fantasies of sudden, miraculous technological change. Many too easily accept the argument that only by limiting economic growth can we achieve real solutions. This thinking is deeply misguided. First, the technological quick fix simply isn't coming, and second, it defies human...
...them is that any successor to Kyoto needs to be "global," to use Kerry's word - meaning that some of the burden will have to be shared by developing nations whose rapid economic growth will make them responsible for the majority of future carbon emissions. China has continued to insist that it will not accept mandatory caps on emissions, which it sees as an unfair limit to its natural economic growth (a position essentially shared by Washington, which also opposes mandatory caps). One positive change from a decade ago, however, is that most developing nations know just how vulnerable they...
...this point, very hard to say how extreme the men had become in their beliefs. All the men charged in the conspiracy insist they are innocent. The trial is scheduled for March 2008, and the government has not yet made public its recordings of the defendants' conversations. But as Morgenstern remembers, if you saw the defendants at a strip mall in Jersey, you wouldn't look twice...
...Again and again, accused terrorists have argued that they were entrapped. So far, this strategy has not worked very well. Legally, entrapment is difficult to prove. But in the Fort Dix case, the families of the defendants still insist they were tricked by Omar. Burim, the youngest Duka brother, says the first time he heard of any plot was from the informant. He says Omar asked him and his brother Eljvir if they wanted to participate, and they said no. Burim believes that Omar "brainwashed" Mohamed. A sixth defendant, Agron Abdullahu, pleaded guilty in October to conspiring...
...officials insist, nevertheless, that they will press ahead with efforts to agree on new sanctions in the U.N. Security Council. But, conceded one official on condition of anonymity, "the sense of urgency has gone...