Don Pearlman, lawyer and former point man for the Reagan administration on matters relating to energy policy is co-opted by a sinister conglomerate of multinational oil companies, charged with stymying the growing rumblings for action on climate change. We’re in the mid-1980s, so the spectre of heatwaves, forest fires and coral reef collapse has yet to galvanise and unify world opinion and some would like it to stay that way.
Kyoto at Sohoplace production image. Photo by Manuel Harlan.