The Joint US - China Cooperation on Clean Energy Forum (JUCCCE — Is that pronounced Juicy?) recently ended and China Environmental Law was there and has posted on it, in its aptly named post, “The Morning After.” This post nicely summarizes went tra…

I think you have put a lot of energy on the message delivery …. a bit too much for me. You made the parallel with “a war”. Well, for me, it sounds just too violent and too “hardware”. I totally agree on the importance of the warning and the stakes, but I really believe that people has already toomuch pressure on their “micro-level life” - look at the recession and the unemployment situation, to focus on the “macro-level life”. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t encourage anyone to be unaware of the climate change (CC) and energy consumption situation, but what I mean here is that adding more stress is not the best way to unify people and expect from them to behave as we wish. You scare them, and when they are scared, they are just like paralysed. War is a terrible thing, very crual. I don’t want the world to be at war to fight the CC, I just want the world to care about what means with common sense. We are NOT at war.