LETTERS

摘要

I agreed with every word of Debora MacKenzie's commentary on the World Health Organization's response to the Ebola outbreak (19/26 December 2015, p 40), but I wish she had taken the argument one stage further. She refers to concerns about "upsetting" member states and obliquely to the need for funding. It is this that needs to be tackled directly and, very probably, that would mean upsetting a large number of people in high places. A very similar conclusion may be drawn about the outcome of the Paris climate talks (19/26 December 2015, p 7 and p 8): namely that national governments simply don't get what is going to be involved in terms of expenditure. The cash will ultimately come from citizens and businesses of those nations, and in turn taxation will need to increase.