Even that bastion of rightwing economics, the Economist, has celebrated the Stern report in the UK, and urged action. And the magazine has been typically perceptive in noting the significant consensus developing across the political spectrum:
Rarely can what passes for the British establishment have been so united. The leaders of the three main parties, the serious newspapers (bar one), the BBC and company chairmen greeted Sir Nicholas Stern's report on climate change with such a chorus of gratitude that one might have thought the distinguished economist had single-handedly rescued the planet from certain destruction.
In contrast, and for some anti-capitalist class analysis on the issue, check out the following articles:
The limits of green politics
Development needed
Change and climate inseparable
Climate change and the necessity of communism
