17-12-2009, 04:25 PM
The Public parts of the Conference can be see live here.
Sadly, it looks to me as it is collapsing because those with the most power want it to. They are, at the same time, slipping out of the Kyoto Protocol [a very weak effort]....leaving things worse, not better. There is another world climate meeting in Mexico next year, but if this one fails, I personally think we can kiss the Planet goodbye - it is only a matter now of a short time.....shorter than most think...and not a quick nor pretty ending...I don't even like to paint the picture of how it would be the last decades. Human hubris et al. has finally caught up with us en toto.
Sadly, it looks to me as it is collapsing because those with the most power want it to. They are, at the same time, slipping out of the Kyoto Protocol [a very weak effort]....leaving things worse, not better. There is another world climate meeting in Mexico next year, but if this one fails, I personally think we can kiss the Planet goodbye - it is only a matter now of a short time.....shorter than most think...and not a quick nor pretty ending...I don't even like to paint the picture of how it would be the last decades. Human hubris et al. has finally caught up with us en toto.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass