Archbishop of Canterbury says fear hinders climate change battle

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/13/archbishop-canterbury-copenhagen-service

Archbishop of Canterbury says fear hinders climate change battle

Rowan Williams tells Copenhagen service corporations and governments are afraid to make choices to bring real change

Riazat Butt, Religious affairs correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 December 2009 19.51 GMT

People are so paralysed by fear and selfishness they cannot save the planet, the archbishop of Canterbury said on Sunday during a church service in Copenhagen.

Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.

He said that fear paralysed individuals, corporations and governments from making the choices needed to affect real and lasting change.

"We are afraid because we don't know how we can survive without the comforts of our existing lifestyle. We are afraid that new policies will be unpopular with a national electorate. We are afraid that younger and more vigorous economies will take advantage of us – or we are afraid that older, historically dominant economies will use the excuse of ecological responsibility to deny us our proper and just development."

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1. Paralyzed by selfishness?

Isn't that kinda like being paralyzed by laziness?