The article below from Time magazine is a bit more sympathetic toward a South American leftist (Morales) than U.S. media usually is--but:
I don't have a settled opinion whether or not reparations to the developing world for the effects of climate change would be an adequate or even a Good Thing, the remark that $400 billion is an "unrealistic" figure for Third World activists to demand is, I think, way wrong.
Our "crackpot realists," to use C. Wright Mills phrase, are forever trying to postpone the absolutely necessary by smearing it as "unrealistic"--whether reparations is a good idea or not, $400 billion may be more than a drop in the bucket for the developed world, but it's hardly more than a puddle, especially considering the costs of inaction about climate change...
R.
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