“We have ‘survival’ emissions, you have lifestyle emissions.”
Shyam Saran, India’s envoy to the UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, on why India won’t accept emissions limits (The Guardian, London, 8 December)
“We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life.”
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Rajo Devi of Hisar in India, who at age 70 has given birth to a girl. Devi conceived 20 years after her menopause with the help of IVF (The Times of India, 7 December)
“We need to move away from passwords. The laissez-faire approach to cyber-security has failed.”
Tom Kellermann, a member of a US government-industry panel on cyber-security that is calling for action to stem a barrage of security breaches to government agencies’ computer systems (The New York Times, 8 December)
“Eat a camel today, I’ve done it. It’s beautiful meat, a bit like beef.”
Murray McGregor of the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre in Canberra, author of a report which found that Australia’s 1 million camels are running wild in the desert, destroying precious water resources (Telegraph.co.uk, 9 December)
“I don’t know what this mad prime minister [Gordon Brown] is talking about… He is asking for an invasion of Zimbabwe.”
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe claims the UK is using a cholera outbreak, which has so far killed 600 people, as an excuse to invade his country. The head of the UN Children’s Fund in Zimbabwe says the death toll could rise to 2700 (Times Online, London, 8 December)
