Full feedDrowned rats
World leaders are scurrying to the Copenhagen airport like rats fleeing a sinking ship. You’d think they were all in the Maldives right now or something, and they could see the water closing in over their heads (if you’ll permit me to mix a couple metaphors).
I hope there are two main takeaways from this fiasco:
1. We coordinated, we organized, we messaged, we demonstrated, we protested. It ultimately fell short, but we came together in unprecedented numbers and forged a global coalition. That’s a victory in and of itself. Let’s redouble our efforts. Only the most massive global public outcry the world has ever seen is going to push our bought-and-paid for politicians to take real action.
2. Like Naomi Klein just told the folks at the Fresh Air Center, it’s time to “take the kid gloves off with Obama.” As an American who gave not just my vote but my time and money to Candidate Obama, I feel betrayed by President Obama. He has sold us down the river on too many important issues, but none more important than global warming since all the others will be irrelevant in the face of runaway climate change.
Two years of planning, two weeks of negotiations, and all we got was a worse than half-assed deal cobbled together in the last two hours. You could say I’m feeling kinda down. Down, but not out. Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown – these people were never going to save us anyway. We will save ourselves.
Comments
Lets just move on and keep doing what we intend to and do not drop the ball. This is just the beginning the people of the world need to show what we are made of.
Ian Cleland
Toward sustainable Futures
The walking man
About people
PS: we have to keep the fight going the planet and humans depends on it.
Posted by: Ian Cleland | December 18, 2009 11:42 PM
An agreement to not agree, not even to disagree. It's just heartbreaking to find out this really is the best we as humanity can do.
As much as I want to be upbeat like Ian Cleland here, I do wonder what it takes to get real change.
And will we just have a yearly Copenhagen chat session from now on? http://twitpic.com/u339o
Posted by: PepijnK | December 19, 2009 12:03 AM
"We will save ourselves" is clearly the only way now. The internet momentum leading up to Copenhagen must not be lost.
Both China and America have claimed they create so much CO2 because they are producing for the world. Well, we can change that can't we? The "Made in" label is easily found on all products. A tons of unsold T-shirts from China would send a big message not only to them but the large chain stores.
Posted by: Richard Kroll | December 19, 2009 10:34 AM
"We will save ourselves" is clearly the only way now. The internet momentum leading up to Copenhagen must not be lost.
Both China and America have claimed they create so much CO2 because they are producing for the world. Well, we can change that can't we? The "Made in" label is easily found on all products. Tons of unsold T-shirts from China would send a big message not only to them but the large chain stores.
Posted by: Richard Kroll | December 19, 2009 10:34 AM
Hello Greenpeace,
Well said Naomi, and to support what you feel and what is acutally REAL I would like to further an initiative which I believe will literally take the world by storm in a positive way The world needs this initiative as we need the confidence to enact its pragmatism....So any Facebookers or Twitters present listen up too and help broadcast this initiative globally please!!!
My father has written a paper on this serious issue which I believe is one which will take the world and everyone in it including all polititicians, governments and NGO and charitable organisations by storm.
Everything that has been discussed at the COP15 in regards to carbon mitigation, REDD et al pales into insignificance compared to what he has written about in his paper.
It is called the SEEBif Intiative and has taken almost thirty years of experience of analysis and interpretation his own research and integrating it into one holostic and introductory paper. There has been nothing like this produced before. It is something the world has been waiting for where science, compassion, economics and human goal development do actually work! Unlike the current singular pull of, "My organisation has the answer". Poppycock!
If anyone including politicians, their advisers, NGO's and charitiable organisations wish for a copy of this paper please contact either, me, Simon or my father on the email address as given and it will be provided to you. IT WILL SUPPORT YOUR WORK OUR WORLD... IF YOU WANT OUR COP 15 AND BEYOND TO WORK.
Posted by: Simon Miles | December 27, 2009 8:05 PM