Odd that Tom Burke's article "Climate Change: time to get real" http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/climate_change_3939.jsp is one of the all-time big hitters on oD with nearly 23,000 hits, but there has been no discussion on the Forums about it. This is a second attempt to get a thread started. Tom said it is time we focused .. on three simple questions: how much governments need to spend, on what, and by when. Your starter for 10: How much: at least as much as they currently spend on militarism. Instead of , not as well as. On what: Energy efficiency and renewable power, within a framework of Contraction and Convergence.  Read the rest of this post...