Friday 2nd January 2009
Worried that our leaders don't take climate change seriously? Of the 10 biggest corporations in the world, 6 are oil companies and 3 are car companies...
The combined revenues of only these 10 in 2006 were around $2.3 trillion, compared with e.g. the GDP of the UK at around $1.9 trillion. How much does the average politician cost? Not that I think they're all corrupt — some of them have to be lobbied, fed misinformation and generally managed before they succumb. But the large majority do succumb.