Thinking Green, in more ways than one

Last week, Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the world bank, unveiled The Stern Report, an extensive analysis of the "cost" of global warming. The report takes a major step in the consideration of global warming, because it casts environmental issues in a light usually far removed from the environment: economics.

Yes, the Stern Report concluded, even staunch economists need be concerned about global warming because it will prove to be detrimental to our thriving economy (among other things). David Suzuki sums up the report concisely and resonatingly here.

(Got some time to kill? Download the complete 700-page report here.)