Developed world needs a BASIC lesson in Durban

Climate change seems all but forgotten thanks to the economic crisis, especially the European Union's (rather eurozone's) debt crisis. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, is just 16 days away, but international media coverage has been thin compared with Bali 2007 or Copenhagen 2009.

Money has been more important for us than the environment, or else we wouldn't have ravaged our planet mercilessly enough to threaten tens of millions of years of nature's works in just a few decades.

If that is the case, why did fighting climate change seem possible just before, and even after, the Bali climate conference in 2007? May be the Bali Road Map, a set of decisions representing the various tracks seen as key to reaching a global climate deal, had something to do with it.