From Vincent Flood, Evanston, Illinois, US
Some views on global warming targets reveal a continuing fantasy: the belief that any such target is achievable without climate engineering. Nobody, their governments included, is going to tell people in low-income countries that they can’t have air conditioning or cars (or toasters, microwave ovens, etc.). Global warming is unstoppable, and the adverse consequences will accumulate horrifically as the heat grows, unless somebody starts to fix the problem. Next issue: remedial action by individual nations could well lead to conflict or maybe make the distribution of global warming problems worse(Letters, 16 August).
