In fact it is you Daniel Peach who have oversimplified reailty. The Per Capita Principle does not suggest that everyone played an equal role in creating the problem, only that perhaps, for once, climate change can and should be the one problem that the world actually solves ALL together. Your cynical reaction is as useless as Canada's government, which consistently waits by the sidelines, waiting for President Obama to somehow accelerate the glacial velocity of the U.S. Congress to pass its climate change bill, all the while claiming it doesn't want to hurt its economy. In reality, Prime Minister Harper doesn't want to lead anything besides the slaves in his own cabinet, being the supreme dicatator-wanabe that he is.

And to clarify, as a Marxist I obviously have my own thoughts regaring our current political economy, yet I do acknowledge the reality which is that for the foreseeable future, we are stuck with a capitalist economy and must work within its framework; however, that doesn't mean we should simply transport wholesale capitalism's ridiculuous notions of private property, infinite growth and individual freedom above all as bases for a climate change solution. The next time you feel like criticizing an article for oversimplification, I suggest you refrain from doing so yourself.