Activists from Via Campesina, an international movement of peasants,
demonstrate during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Cancun, Mexico, December 7, 2010. Photo AP/Eduardo Verdugo.
[For more analysis of the Cancun climate talks, click HERE.]
By Nick Buxton
December 16, 2010 -- Transnational Institute -- In the famous Hans Christian Anderson fable, "The Emperor's New Clothes", a weaver famously plays on an emperor's arrogance and persuades him to wear a non-existent suit with the argument that it is only invisible to the "hopelessly stupid".