Watch: McKibben, Lomborg, and Kerry on Copenhagen

Thu Dec. 17, 2009 6:15 PM PST

Here are today's FORA.tv clips from Copenhagen. First, Mother Jones contributor Bill McKibben explains just how discouraging the conference has been so far. According to current international proposals, he said, "we'll live in hell, or a place with a remarkably similar temperature" by 2010:

 

 

Danish climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg worrys that the conference will yield nothing more than empty promises:

 

 

And yesterday, Sen. John Kerry emphasized the "building anger" at the developed world's sluggish response to climate change:

 

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