Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
the start of AGW!! Well please excuse our ancestors for trying to survive
and put the world in the fantastic position it is today. There has always
been war, famine, plague and pestilence. More people now live longer and
better than at any other time in history. What we all seemingly take for
granted today could not have happened any other way.



What "fantastic position" is that then? OK, it's great for a few
privileged million, but sadly one in six humans still live in abject
poverty, 800 million go hungry each day, and most of the advances that
have given us that "fantastic position" were bought at great personal
cost to the third world. Just look he

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5071172.stm

to find out where the copper inside your computer comes from for example.

The most wealthy half of the world population (us included) have created
the problem. Now all we seem to want to do is wring our hands and say it
isn't so. Pretty typical really...