NECESSARY CAVEAT TO THE TEDIOUSNESS OF SPEECHIFICATING. Evo Morales was the noted exception to this morning's rather mundane mitigation discussion. The Bolivian president uniformly condemned capitalism as "the worst enemy of humanity," one that will never allow for actual solutions to our climate change problem. The basic idea behind his five-minute speech was that as long as we treat the planet like "merchandise," we won't be able to change the looming reality of climate change. "If we do not change the models, we certainly won't be changing this climate," said Morales. Now that's a different mitigation strategy.
--Kate Sheppard
