What a disaster. The climate summit in Copenhagen has failed because of the hardball politicking of the United States, China and several other countries -- and because people just can't seem to fathom how catastrophic climate change will be. They probably won't have long to wait before things become a bit clearer. The global climate summit in Copenhagen has failed. There will be no concrete goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Industrialized countries extended no concrete offers of hope to developing countries. Newly industrializing countries, such as India and China, can continue to grow their economies without any checks and balances for the climate. In the run-up to the conference, scientists, environmentalists and politicians alike called it one of the most important in history. But now it's just a missed opportunity. Likewise, it might just be one of the last of its kind in the battle against climate change. It took governments from around the world 17 years to come together for this summit in Copenhagen -- 17 years of talking, seemingly endless negotiations, ideological debates, delays and maneuvering. It's been 17 years since the first climate-related meeting, held in Rio in 1992. It's been 17 years of searching for solutions to confront the threats resulting from climate change. And this is what we're left with. Many of the hopes that had been building up since 1992 have now been shattered.
What a disaster. The climate summit in Copenhagen has failed because of the hardball politicking of the United States, China and several other countries -- and because people just can't seem to fathom how catastrophic climate change will be. They probably won't have long to wait before things become a bit clearer.
The global climate summit in Copenhagen has failed. There will be no concrete goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Industrialized countries extended no concrete offers of hope to developing countries. Newly industrializing countries, such as India and China, can continue to grow their economies without any checks and balances for the climate.
In the run-up to the conference, scientists, environmentalists and politicians alike called it one of the most important in history. But now it's just a missed opportunity. Likewise, it might just be one of the last of its kind in the battle against climate change.
It took governments from around the world 17 years to come together for this summit in Copenhagen -- 17 years of talking, seemingly endless negotiations, ideological debates, delays and maneuvering. It's been 17 years since the first climate-related meeting, held in Rio in 1992. It's been 17 years of searching for solutions to confront the threats resulting from climate change. And this is what we're left with. Many of the hopes that had been building up since 1992 have now been shattered.
i mean, every crisis is an opportunity, right?
how are they going to sell us clean air and water unless they make most of it too filthy to consume?
how are shares in arms companies going to keep climbing unless we keep warring?
how is big pharma going to prosper if we learn to be healthy?
and who's going to buy media sources full of agenda-driven lies if the internet thrives?
gets ya hooked on the junk then sells ya the cure... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Human evil is a more comforting thought than human stupidity, I guess. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
as for being comforting, i wish...
besides evil is just stupidity concentrated to the nth degree, no? nothing metaphysical here!
or perhaps evil is unaccountable stupidity with a superiority complex.
so good is accountable intelligence with a sense of proportion.
works for me... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
and yes, it does look random, what am i missing? Eventually physical reality trumps narrative. It can just take a long time. Derrick Jensen
Without the algorithm or knowing the dependent and independent axises ... it's semantically null.
Thinking about it a tad more ...
It could also be "semantically reflective" of the epistemological presuppositions of the viewer, analyzer. Humans really like patterns, ya know.
