The Gary Null Blog

Published on Monday, December 21, 2009 by The Guardian/UK Climate change isn't just a battle between rich and poor – it shows how an obsession with economic growth is a dead end by Jayati Ghosh So the Copenhagen summit did not deliver any hope of substantive change, or even any indication that the world's leaders are sufficiently aware of the vastness and urgency of the problem. But is that such a surprise? Nothing in the much-hyped runup to the summit suggested that the organisers and participants had genuine ambitions to change course and stop or reverse a process of clearly unsustainable growth.