Bali - yet another big fat waste of time and carbon

As yet another useless and wasted environmental summit draws to a close, I'm yet again asking myself why we'll have to wait another two years before anything gets done.  In a completely unsurprising move, the United States has pretty much wrecked any chance of a workable agreement by deciding to propose that everything agreed on be 'voluntary' rather than binding. In treaty terms, in case you hadn't guessed, 'voluntary' agreements count for fuck all.

As the years roll on, with the climate becoming increasingly unstable and scientists' predictions racing towards us at the speed of light (2015 now seems quite close),  there comes a time when you have to accept that our elected leaders just will not do what is required of them. Citizens need to stand up and vote for parties and candidates which are genuinely committed to effective change in carbon output, oil dependency and new power solutions.

Incidentally, for those of you still 'unconvinced' by the evidence (the word for you is 'luddite' or 'member of the Flat Earth Society'), you need to understand that the vast majority of scientists studing the climate agree that this is happening and that humans are causing it. Clinging to the chance that a few controversial studies paid for by Exxon and Shell might be right is as absurd as maintaining that Dick Cheney planned the 9/11 attacks. Get over it.

Actually, the only reassuring thing I've heard this week was the US  chief scientist,  John Marburger speaking on BBC Radio 4 the other day. He said that climate change is a reality and that we're to blame. Right so we're all agreed on something we agreed on 15 years ago!

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December 14, 2007 | Filed Under Home, Politics 

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