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...environment, the only climate-change solutions they're likely to accept will be ones that come cheap. Fortunately the IPCC says that's possible-the new report concludes that the cost of stabilizing global carbon emissions by 2030 could require as little as one-tenth of a percentage point per year of global 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...
...Developing nations make the point that they're not responsible for the vast majority of carbon dioxide hanging around in the atmosphere-which was put there by Western countries during their own development over the past 150 years. They argue that their own per capita-emissions rates are still far lower than those of the West, and that, therefore, climate change isn't their responsibility. But future global warming will hinge on how we deal with future carbon emissions-most of which will come from developing Asia. The center of gravity of climate-change politics has moved to China, India...
...There's certainly a lot of lost ground to be made up. France has languished economically, even as Britain has caught up and overtaken it. In 2002, according to O.E.C.D. statistics, the U.K.'s national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has widened. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France - a mood that Sarkozy is pledging to change...
...violence-ravaged region. The dynamism of social entrepreneurship makes a mockery, alas, of our political leadership. The Gateses, Buffett, Soros, Page and Brin have left George W. Bush and the rest of Washington in the dust. U.S. international aid is at a pitiful 0.17% of national income (just 17¢ per $100), with much of that squandered as failed "reconstruction aid" in Iraq...
...certainly a lot of lost ground to make up. France has languished in the economic doldrums for the past few years, even as Britain has caught up and overtaken it. In 2002, according to statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Britain's national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has grown sharply. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France--a mood that Sarkozy...