There are not too many votes in trying to get people to change lifestyles, pay more for fuel, limit air travel and accept a lower standard of living.

The costs of the switchover to green energy and renewable are huge and the world is struggling to escape the worst financial crisis capitalism has ever had to contend with. The banks were rescued and global capitalism survived, the debts are still to be paid.

The Stern Report argues that although the costs are high it is possible to turn the world around and the costs of not doing so are catastrophic. The cost would be a fraction of the money raised to save capitalism and are not the people of the planet and this earth more important than global capitalism?

There is war, terrorism and conflict between nations and ideologies..

The ends we can all agree are good quality of life for the  new population of the world, with an element of justice and opportunity for all regardless of the accidents of history, geography, race, class, religion……..the means to those ends are the stuff of politics and philosophy, tolerance and imagination, pragmatism and goodwill.

Ref: The economics of Climate Change. The Stern review, Cambridge University press