Guilty Greenga

La Greenga is feeling guilty. She went on a business trip by plane (bad), had snacks on the plane, drinking water out of a plastic cup that went straight into the flight attendant big plastic trash bag, along with an unused napkin and the plastic wrapper for the pretzels (bad, bad, and bad).

Ironically, I was reading a special report on climate change in The Economist (good?).

The report, Stopping Climate Change, equated combating climate change with taking an insurance policy for our children. We don't know how bad and how fast the deterioration will happen (They said the warming could even self-correct) but under the circumstances, it makes sense to protect humanity from the risks. This "insurance policy" would cost only 1% of the world's GDP IF (a big "if") the money is applied efficiently. To The Economist writers, the most efficient way would be use public money to leverage private investment and set off the costs of going clean.