Chris Patten — British Politician born on May 12, 1944,

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes CH PC is chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong and the BBC Trust... (wikipedia)

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.