At Poznan, No One Is Listening -- The Guardian
At the world climate change summit, few delegates paid attention to the tale of oil's inevitable demise.
Another year passes, another climate change summit arrives, the 14th in the annual series. The community of nations have been talking for more than 18 years now about how to stop humanity's remorseless effort to cook its own home. These gabfests have largely been action-free zones. I have attended too many of them, but this year it was time to risk my blood-pressure on another.
I took the train to Poland, a prospect that sounds like a recipe for slow-travel hell, but in fact was both easy and productive. You take the afternoon Eurostar to Brussels, the evening express to Cologne, the night train to Poland, disembark after eight hours sleep just in time for breakfast, with a massive reading backlog dismantled along the way. Much less carbon emitted than would have been the case flying, and Ryanair's boss – Michael O'Leary – deprived of his thin margin. All in all, a good day's work.
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