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ANALYSIS:Vested interests – governmental and private business – are making it almost impossible to obtain a legally binding treaty to combat global warming

LAST FRIDAY, the final day of the UN climate change talks in unseasonably warm and sunny Barcelona, six environmentalists kitted out as Martians with shiny silver space-suits, green-painted faces and bobbing antennae on their heads said it all: “You humans sure talk a lot!”