Cooling the climate in a hot region
WHATEVER the travails of the Greek economy, George Papandreou has a gift for accentuating the positive. Ask the prime minister about his country’s comparative advantages, and he is likely to mention the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. His latest paean on the subject, at a resort south of Athens on October 22nd, had a sympathetic audience: a grouping of Mediterranean politicians, including Israelis, Palestinians, Greek-Cypriots and Turks, who probably found it easier to agree on culinary matters than on most other things.
As it turns out, there is at least one other thing on which Mediterranean leaders concur, at least in theory: the need to protect their sea and its shore from the worst effects of a looming ecological threat that could make it much harder to produce all that healthy fruit, wine and oil.
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