Gordon brown's speech on climate change

The daily is not impressed by the first speech on climate change delivered by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on November 19th. "Global warming, he said, constituted 'an immense challenge to the world'. The cost of doing nothing would be an economic crisis as bad as the Great Depression plus a world war rolled into one. Nothing less was needed than a fourth industrial revolution. ... Given all that, why is there such a curious lack of urgency about what Mr Brown is actually doing, rather than merely saying? ... For all the talk about emissions cuts, the Government's transport strategy points in the opposite direction, especially in the week that it is likely to back the expansion of Heathrow Airport. So do the additional £300m cuts [around 419 millions euros], disclosed at the weekend, in government environmental services. ... If green speeches by political leaders were enough, said Friends of the Earth (FOE), climate change would have been solved many years ago."

Source : http://europe.courrierinternational.com/eurotopics/article.asp?langue=uk&publication=20/11/2007&cat=POLITICS&pi=4