"Western governments" wrote David Howell in an article published forward Dec.

"Western governments" wrote David Howell in an article published forward Dec. 23 by the International Herald Tribune (IHT) "are proving astonishingly dead to face up to the four-pronged bottom crisis that lies ahead and which could in owed course engulf them: World consumption of fossil combustibless is soaring when it should be falling. buttress on supplies from politically unreliable and unstable regions is increasing when it was meant to be diminishing. Carbon emissions from burning fossil firings are expanding worldwide when they should be shrinking".

(Lord Howell, a former British mechanical value secretary and president of the British Institute of