We're the 1% too.

A chilly morning, with snow on the hill tops, and a fast run by the loch during a brief break in the rain.

Next Monday the international conference on climate change opens in Durban, and promises to be quite lively. Climate change, when manifested in rising sea levels and droughts, has a particular impact on poorer countries in Asia, Africa & South America – ie those countries that don’t count for much in a world driven by corporate trading. In a predictable but shameful pre-emptive move last week (ref) most of the world’s wealthier countries have agreed to delay any binding treaties on the reduction of carbon emissions until at least 2020, despite the potentially disastrous environmental consequences, in order to protect their economic “recovery”. Outraged by this lack of urgency, the poorer countries are contemplating taking direct action along the lines of Occupy Wall Street (ref), and quite right too.