Thus The Financial Times today. “One of the biggest gatherings of world leaders to discuss climate change ended on a sobering note when Nelson Mandela’s widow said lofty pledges they had made failed to match the scale of the problem,” explains the newspaper. Surprise, surprise. All the good leaders did at the headquarters of the United Nations was pledge support for poor countries. France led the pack with a billion dollars. China offered six-million dollars. America avoided any specific commitment. Perhaps the only surprise came from financial institutions that pledged a lot of money to confront the growing problem. According to the article, one of the best speeches given at the summit was the one by Leonardo DiCaprio, a freshly appointed climate envoy of the United Nations. He said he played fictitious characters solving fictitious problems for a living. “I believe humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away,” he said. Well put. Whence the call at people’s climate marches across the globe a couple of days ago: “Stop climate change!”