Question Earthority!

“When the rich and powerful gathered for their annual meeting at Davos in January, at the World Economic Forum, climate change was on their collective minds. Signs reading Make Green Pay served as a backdrop for the usual panels, featuring CEOs and high-end pundits holding forth on global finance and the terrorist threat. And, participants say, global warming was the number-one topic amid the shmoozing, where the real business of the retreat is conducted. There’s some good news here. Given the risk that a climate catastrophe could hit soon and suddenly, we’ve got to make some dramatic changes very quickly. What CEOs and portfolio managers think and do is an urgent question; we may not have time for mass movements to develop and force elites to do the right thing. They’ve got to get started now, or all could be doomed. But you’ve got to wonder how serious they are about doing something.” (04/28/07)