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COP15 Failure: The Alternative. Chapter II.
Yesterday I blamed Obama, then I blamed the American senate, then I blamed myself for choosing the sustainable way, for buzzing all the people I know to change their habits, for not being just an ignorant. Then I went back online and read articles on 350, notes on tcktcktck (The world may be ready, but its leaders are not), countless 140 character messages on Twitter. Some people were outraged, some others were content, some were speechless. Everybody had put a lot of hope in COP15.
But although history will be written somewhere else, COP15 will still remain an important page of climate history. Whining about it is the worst we can do, it won't change the reality and it doesn't help Earth either. Then what does?
"I took a walk in the park and I stood there watching the clouds play colour with the evening sun. I watched the swallows dance, and the trees move to a music I could not hear. I removed my shoes and walked carelessly on the grass."
Just like Hemant above, I turn to nature to recharge batteries and find relief whenever I feel like everything is against me. I did the same now. I took my camera and went out to listen to the stones cracking in the cold, to the wind whooshing through the empty trees, to the remaining leaves fluttering in shadows. I went out to watch the flight of the birds and seek for an answer.
As I was telling Hemant (read his entire post, it's beautiful) I don’t believe in chasing the beauty of our planet. I think it’s everywhere, but we have to open eyes or pay attention to see it. And (re)discovering its beauty is rediscovering hope. Because nature is patient and always gives (some of) us a second chance.
I found the answer I was looking for. I am sure that as long as there will still be at least one human being standing, hope will not die. And Earth will not die.
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COP15 FAILURE AND PEAK OIL SUCCESS
Andrew McKillop, November 2009
WHY EXAGGERATE GLOBAL WARMING?
Since late summer, several OECD country leaders in the G20 group have stridently backed their proposals for radical cuts in global CO2 emissions, by waving the spectre of ‘catastrophic climate change’ if we do not achieve rapid, massive cuts in CO2 on a worldwide and uniform basis.
President Obama along with leaders including Gordon Brown, Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela
Merkel have proposed CO2 emissions cuts up to 40% by 2020 and 80% by 2050 from a 2005
baseline. To be sure, there is a basic undisclosed driver for this intense concern for the planet and well publicized fears of Biblical-style floods ‘by the end of the century’. The basic driver is tight oil
supply, high oil prices, and small likelihood that oil prices will follow natural gas prices into ‘sweet and low’ territory.
The near fantastic CO2 emissions cuts proposed by several OECD leaders for worldwide
application might perhaps be possible for the OECD group, especially if OECD total energy
demand shrank on a long-term annual basis. They would however be totally impossible in the fast growing economies of China and India, and almost certainly Brazil, Russia, the GCC countries and elsewhere. Chinese, Indian and other APEC leaders have now underlined this, loud and clear.
Andrew, I am not trying to exaggerate anything.
On the contrary, I agree with you. Most leaders talk about fantastic % of co2 emission cuts. But talking is not the same with signing a legally binding agreement.
Cuts proposed are not the same with cuts achieved. Look back at Kyoto.
Hmmmm…
Indian leaders are pretending to be straightforward about their arrogance. They deny every other pro-global warming scientific research paper. Even IPCC Chairman & Nobel Laureate, Mr Pachauri, criticised our great leaders. But still they are firmly standing behind their own comfortable anti-global-warming understanding, “Global warming? it just does not exist”.
I guess, this stand is taken by them, either keeping in view their own personal relations with industrialists’ lobby or looking at the benefits India might get from the talks & milking more & more out of these negotiations by staying staunch or maybe both.
Whatever may be their interests, personal or patriotic/nationalist, it is going to affect whole earth in near future & it should be opposed. If each other leader starts being patriotic & thinks only about so-called progress of his own country, it will simply be impossible to tackle 180 national leaders to be present at Copenhagen.
Still, I am extremely hopeful about the talks & the believe strongly in “TOGETHER, WE CAN DO IT”.
(Hope, someone from Indian administration will be reading thinkteam blogs…)
‘If each other leader starts being patriotic & thinks only about so-called progress of his own country, it will simply be impossible to tackle 180 national leaders to be present at Copenhagen.’
The 1st truth I read today.
@Adela…
thnx. it ws really an expression, the one dat directly comes from heart whn one sees such an irrational behavior frm d leaders nt just denying global warming bt also rudely opposing even possiblity of legally binding deal..
nywys, u ppl kp writing…
i m neither blessed with dat quality nor hav tym to do d research to write d blogs like u…
bt yesss, i cn cetainly kp tweeting/retweeting abt it…
Insane environuts will be their own undoing.
@Aditya: Thank you for supporting this platform & the people here.
@Mike: I’ve read Eamonn’s post about the emails & I also read some of the letters yesterday.
If you’d read through his comments, you would have seen my opinion about it. All this fuss has nothing to do with what I care about, nothing to do with what I see if I look outside my window.
And Earth will not die.
Of course it won’t.
We will.
We’re part of Earth
or at least this is how I see our species.
Indeed, we are part of the Earth, but as all the species, our staying here may is temporary: we can be here as long as the Earth allows us to be.
Whenever the conditions are no longer present, we well be gone. But the Earth will remain, and eventually heal itself.
It’s up to us to see if we’re smart enough to stay for as long as we can.