…is their sheer incompetence:
One has to admire the heartless indifference of the climate-change jet-set in the VIP enclosure to a lifelong toady like Borenstein. The rest of us, though, might draw the conclusion that, even if you think it a good idea to transfer trillions of dollars from the functioning part of the world to a transnational bureaucracy in an attempt to recalibrate the very heavens, these chaps might not be the ones you’d want running it.
But somehow, that thought never seems to occur to them.
Tough. I am a fairly easy-going person, but the one thing I absolutely loathe and despise above all others is corruption. The developing world was not taught to be corrupt or shiftless. It is an entirely self-taught thing. It is not the fault of the former colonial powers (although one can make an exception for places like the Belgian Congo, which was very much an aberration), and it is not the responsibility of the former colonial powers to deal with it. It is entirely and utterly the responsibility and fault of the developing nations which suffer from the problem they have brought upon themselves.