Clinton: Energy is way out of crisis

WHILE global leaders struggled in London to agree on policies that would let each do their own thing, Bill Clinton had a simple message for the alternative globalisation event in Brussels: “Just do it.”

The man, now eight years out of office as US president, admitted he should have pushed harder to regulate derivatives, but said he assumed the rich people buying them knew what they were doing.

He spoke without notes to an audience of 2,000 mostly young people from NGOs and left-leaning political groups gathered in the European Parliament to find new answers to the economic, food, climate and energy crisis.