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kofi vs. global warming - via guns'n'butter:

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said today that global warming was as great a threat to civilization as weapons of mass destruction, and therefore it deserved an equally serious response from the world community.

"Global climate change must take its place alongside those threats -- conflict, poverty, the proliferation of deadly weapons -- that have traditionally monopolized first-order political attention. And by first-order political attention, I mean complete and utter inaction by the world community," Annan said.

"The United Nations must treat global warming exactly as we have treated the threats from genocidal regimes, kleptocracies that starve their own people, and the worldwide proliferation of weapons of mass destruction at the hands of terrorist organizations and rogue states. We must vigorously denounce it, preferably with a haughty twirl of the index finger and a carefully practiced expression of deep concern, before heading back to our hotel rooms to order pizza and hookers and otherwise enjoy all of New York City's wonderful amenities at the expense of our respective nations' unsuspecting taxpayers."