Wednesday, 9 November 2011

We told ya so...

...while the media have given every possible encouragement to governments to commit national economic suicide, and while they have parrotted every greenpeace sob and scare story, many scientists, politicians and members of the public have remained unimpressed. A few politicians such as Julia Gillard and Bob Brown in Australia have written their names in the great book of lunacy by committing their governments to (short term) economic ruin in the name of saving the planet... Bad idea, bad politics and exquisitely bad timing...

From the latest (deep green) Ecology magazine re the upcoming Durban environmental summit headlined ...

"Durban climate summit: is it time to forget about 2 degrees of warming?...Led by political academics, there is an emerging consensus that it is time to drop idealistic hopes of an all-encompassing and workable global deal...The summits in Copenhagen and Cancun continued what a number of observers believe is a forlorn quest to get the major polluting countries to agree a legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction deal.‘We’ve been doing the same kind of approach for 20 years now, and it’s going nowhere’..." More here...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a game changer!

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E7MI18O20111118?sp=true

Ayrdale said...

You are so right anon.

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