Cancun, and Mañana
Ah, Cancun.
I’ve never been there. Admittedly I’m not much of a sand-and-sun person anyway, but Cancun’s reputation as a kind of ne plus ultra of “girls-gone-wild, fly to another country in order to binge on mediocre alcoholic beverages and hop into bed with strangers, college-age American’s fantasy” has always made it seem a particularly stupid and pointless destination to me.
And, in that sense, it seems entirely appropriate as host for the latest stop on international diplomats’ endless world tour of climate change conferences.
Writing as an environmentalist, as someone very concerned about climate change and as someone who considers a binding international agreement to sharply curtail greenhouse gas emissions to be the real most urgent priority facing nearly all the world’s governments, both individually and collectively, I nonetheless have to ask: is there any point whatsoever to this gathering? (more…)
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