The Economist's latest issue, June 2nd-8th 2007, contains a 15-page special report on the business community's response to climate change. Other people may be more qualified than I to examine the articles contained within on their merits, but I can tell you for certain that as it relates to my own field of interest, their editors are clueless. Unless modern corn has figured out how to grow itself and nobody informed me.
And I quote, from page 4 of the report section, emphasis mine:
... This special report will examine how climate change is affecting business, and how business can affect climate change. It will concentrate on industrial emissions rather than on agriculture and deforestation (which produce lots of carbon dioxide without involving business much) but will leave out air travel, on which this newspaper will publish a special report in two weeks' time.
Pardon? Agriculture ... doesn't involve business much? My cranial hamster wheel wobbles on its very axis; it threatens a total derailment.
