Over the next two weeks, Paris will lead the world in rhetoric as 150 leaders from various countries attempt to explain how only billions of dollars taken out of your pocket can save the world from climate change.
So, watch your wallets.
You’ll hear how the climate conference – tabbed COP21 – is the last, best chance to save the world – to prevent coastal cities from being flooded, to keep animals from dying, to keep it from being too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry, to reduce the intensity of tornadoes and hurricanes, and, if you believe United States President Barack Obama, to prevent terrorism.
“A political moment like this may not come again,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said.
“Humanity faces many threats,” England’s Prince Charles said, “but none is greater than climate change.”