Leaders must confront poverty as well as climate change in Copenhagen
Editor, Your editorial (“Time for the World to Unite on Climate Change”, 7 December) claims that climate change will “ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security”. Ironically, with respect to climate and more generally, the very absence of prosperity is the problem for several billion of our planet’s inhabitants.
Drought. Rain will become more erratic, and scarse, as weather patterns change.