Putin s Syrian Roulette

Playing Russian Roulette with Climate Change

Haldane describes this as resorting to the roulette wheel.

Perhaps that analogy is rather insulting to those who play roulette.

The ball eventually loses momentum and falls onto the wheel and into one of 37 (in French European roulette) or 38 (in American roulette) colored and numbered pockets on the wheel.

Banks geared up dramatically, in a competitive race to generate higher returns. Haldane describes this as resorting to the roulette wheel.

A century earlier, Blaise Pascal introduced a primitive form of roulette in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine.

But, given European governments behavior, the urgent question presents itself Do these governments have any inkling of what is at stake at the table where they sit playing roulette with history?

An agreement based on the parameters that are now on the negotiating table would thus put us in a position more dangerous than a game of Russian roulette. To avoid both the global hangover of no deal and the self deception of a weak deal, a breakthrough is needed and can still be achieved in Copenhagen.