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THE world’s governments are sleepwalking to climate disaster. That much is clear from the UN’s latest climate conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya. It is increasingly obvious that the minor diplomats and environment ministers in charge of climate negotiations have lost sight of the huge climatic forces that threaten future planetary security. It is high time that the big players – the UN Security Council and the General Assembly – took charge. As UN secretary general Kofi Annan put it in Nairobi: “Global climate change must take its place alongside those threats – conflict, poverty and the proliferation of deadly weapons – that have traditionally monopolised first-order political attention.”…