[Sosfbay-discuss] UN Climate Change Conference-Feinstein on finalnegotiations

[Wes Rolley]

Tian Harter wrote:
> According to the site in the URL at the end of that video, they did 
> reach some sort of agreement in the end:
>
> http://unfccc.int/2860.php
>   
Everyone will call this a victory, but if it is, it is a very hollow 
one.  It was an agreement to continue talking for another two year and 
to reach some sort of actionable plan before 2010,.

That is two years in which we will have continued to build up the 
surplus of Green House Gases.
That is two years in which  US Government can swathe it's inaction and 
play Alphonse / Gaston with China.
That is two years in which the lack of American Action will increase the 
enmity that we have engendered throughout the world.
That is two years in which even a change in Administration, e.g. to a 
Clinton Compromiser or an Obama Dreamer, will continue to tringulate 
deals that allow multi-national corporations to continue screwing the 
planet or to move their operations to countries whose government 
regulators are more easily bribed.

I would suggest that everyone browse through the blog entries that 
Andrew Revikin has called for on his Dot Earth blog at the NY Times.  
Voices on Bali and Beyond 
<http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/voices-on-bali-and-beyond/> 
is a collection of comments from people who were actually there.  Here 
is a quote from the first responder, Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, the delegate 
from Jamaica, and representative of a Coalition of Caribbean nations:  
His target was the EU for its failure to stand up to the US stalling 
tactics.

> This amounts to a real betrayal of all those who counted on the EU to 
> do the right thing, and amounts to a *capital crime against the 
> environment,* because millions will die as the result of unchecked 
> global warming.
If there is a single issue that the Green Party needs to be very clear 
about, it is the one of Climate Change. What we do now, not what we 
begin to do in 2010 will have an effect on:
- agricultural policy a swarming weather makes major changes to what can 
be grown where and how much food might each country have to import or be 
able to export as a result.
- trade policies as competition for declining reserves of food and 
water, the basic essentials of life, make countries increasingly 
protectionist.
- energy policy unless we take aggressive steps to get off of fossil fuels.
- security as increased frustration with US arrogance sends an 
increasing flow of people towards Al Qaeda or other organizations.
- health care as diseases once considered tropical become increasingly 
prevalent in the more highly populated, currently temperate zones.

Have we come so far from our roots as a party that we are not the 
leaders in speaking out? *
*

-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
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