Houellebecq:>> Glad you asked. It's something namby panby intellectual elite Chardonnay sipping socialists like to bang on about to increase their street cred. Full of guilt that they have managed such largesse which is in total conflict with their stated political beliefs,<<

Yes H, that vividly paints the dichotomy of their reasoning, well said.

I believe the Carbon footprint for the Copenhagen and Bonn Summits encompassed five years of emissions for Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Niger, and the ever popular Cote'Ivoire, and emitted in a record of sixty days. They are all hypocrites of course as are their defenders who bang away at their computers by the light of the Humphrey Davy.