Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet

The notice of GDRs in Bill McKibben’s latest — Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet — isn’t particularly long, but it’s just fine none the less.  To wit:

… how do you sit down and negotiate a global climate pact?  No one has tried harder to game out the scenarios than Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer, the directors of the Greenhouse Development Rights Network, who point out that this will be the first time that developing nations have ever come to international talks with any real clout: after all, if they burn all their coal, there’s nothing the rest of us can do to ward off global warming.  And they have justice on their side, since they’ve done nothing to cause the global warming.  “The fact is, they’re not particularly disposed to experiments that, they fear, will close off the only routes to progress they’ve ever had.”