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Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New ClothesPosted on Dec 15, 2009By Amy Goodman Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid” was one of his most famous tales, published in 1837, along with “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” As the United Nations’ climate summit, called “COP 15,” enters its final week, with more than 100 world leaders arriving amid growing protests, the notion that a binding agreement will come from this conference looks more and more like a fairy tale. The reality is harsher. Negotiations have repeatedly broken down, with divisions between the global North, or industrialized countries, and the global South. Leading the North is the United States, the world’s greatest polluter, historically, and a leader in per capita carbon emissions. Among the Southern nations are several groupings, including the least-developed countries, or LDCs; African nations; and nations from AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island States. These are places where millions live on the edge, directly impacted by climate change, dealing with the effects, from cyclones and droughts to erosion and floods. Tuvalu, near Fiji, and other island nations, for example, are concerned that rising sea levels will wipe their countries off the map. New conceptions of the crisis are emerging at COP 15. People are speaking of climate justice, climate debt and climate refugees. Indian scientist and activist Vandana Shiva was among those who addressed a climate justice rally of 100,000 Saturday in Copenhagen. Afterward, I asked her to respond to U.S. climate negotiator Jonathan Pershing, who said the Obama administration is willing to pay its fair share, but added that donors “don’t have unlimited largesse to disburse.” Shiva responded, “I think it’s time for the U.S. to stop seeing itself as a donor and recognize itself as a polluter, a polluter who must pay. ... This is not about charity. This is about justice.” Shiva went on: “A climate refugee is someone who has been uprooted from their home, from their livelihoods, because of climate instability. It could be people who’ve had to leave their agriculture because of extended drought. It could be communities in the Himalayas who are having to leave their villages, either because flash floods are washing out their villages or because streams are disappearing.” Advertisement The Bella Center itself, where the summit is being held, is said by the U.N. to be at capacity. Thousands of people line up daily in the cold, vainly hoping to get in to the Bella of the Beast. Thousands more, from the NGOs, are having their access stripped, ostensibly to make room for visiting heads of state, their entourages and security. Outside, Copenhagen is seeing an unprecedented police crackdown, with the largest and most expensive security operation in Denmark’s history. More than 1,200 people were detained over the weekend, and as this column goes to press, targeted arrests of protest organizers and police raids of public protest convergence spaces are being reported. Heavy-handed police tactics give another meaning to “COP 15.” After South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke at a candlelight vigil for children, I asked whether he thought President Barack Obama was following through on climate change. He responded: “We hope he will, yes. He has given the world a great deal of hope. I have said he’s now a Nobel laureate—become what you are.” Last week, as a polar bear ice statue melted downtown, revealing the dinosaur skeleton hidden within, a small ice replica of Copenhagen’s famous Little Mermaid statue sat outside the Bella Center, melting. She is now gone. Obama is making his second attempt to win a prize in Copenhagen, after the Chicago Olympics embarrassment. Unless he uses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new determination that carbon dioxide is a public health hazard and nails down a fair, ambitious and binding agreement, we may see Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” played out on the global stage. Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column. Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 800 stations in North America. She is the author of “Breaking the Sound Barrier,” recently released in paperback and now a New York Times best-seller. © 2009 Amy Goodman Distributed by King Features Syndicate Previous item: It's Not About Tiger Woods, It's About Us Next item: U.S. Contemplates More of the Scarcely Believable in 'Af-Pak' CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
By Dave, January 3 at 5:10 pm Link to this comment
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Sorry folks, but the weather is not a problem. All we have is normal cylical changing. This is a money grab, and nothing more. Believe any wierdo scientist you like, but this twill not change the path of the jet stream. Go do something important with you life and leave the myth business to the freako’s.
Report thisBy Kristian Bro, December 24, 2009 at 6:33 am Link to this comment
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Copenhagen: Peoples Assembly in front of BellaCenter 16.dec.2009 in pictures and video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45694700@N04/4194131312/in/photostream/
Report thisBy DieDaily, December 21, 2009 at 12:34 am Link to this comment
Shanon, thanks for taking the time to answer my message, but what I was asking for was a discussion of the science, not a faith-based response. Most Americans have been brainwashed to believe that their feelings about a thing define the thing. For instance, you “feel that global warming exists” and somehow that matters. For children this is OK and is actually the norm. But not for scientists, I’m afraid, providing they haven’t been bought by the oil companies which have financed and promoted the fraudulent global warming concept. Here’s a link to some of the actual science (hope it doesn’t hurt your feelings):
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
(Fully peer reviewed paper citing 132 reviewed papers, now endorsed by over 30,000 scientists.)
You can pretend the science isn’t definitive all you like, Shannon, even though it is. But all you’re doing is placing your hands over your eyes and saying “you can’t see me!”. That may be a fun game, but believe it or not, just because your close your eyes to the rigorous scientific evidence, it doesn’t actually disappear. How about you peek between your fingers a wee bit and give that link a read through. Then maybe Google “Climategate” and “Lord Monckton” just for starters. There’s really no end of evidence debunking the hoax, and all the pro-hoax data is extremely concentrated in tiny little group of peers-for-hire. The truth is out. Deny it all you like, but it’s not going to be suppressed now.
Report thisBy DieDaily, December 21, 2009 at 12:34 am Link to this comment
Shanon, thanks for taking the time to answer my message, but what I was asking for was a discussion of the science, not a faith-based response. Most Americans have been brainwashed to believe that their feelings about a thing define the thing. For instance, you “feel that global warming exists” and somehow that matters. For children this is OK and is actually the norm. But not for scientists, I’m afraid, providing they haven’t been bought by the oil companies which have financed and promoted the fraudulent global warming concept. Here’s a link to some of the actual science (hope it doesn’t hurt your feelings):
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
(Fully peer reviewed paper citing 132 reviewed papers, now endorsed by over 30,000 scientists.)
You can pretend the science isn’t definitive all you like, Shannon, even though it is. But all you’re doing is placing your hands over your eyes and saying “you can’t see me!”. That may be a fun game, but believe it or not, just because your close your eyes to the rigorous scientific evidence, it doesn’t actually disappear. How about you peek between your finders a wee bit and give that link a read through. Then maybe Google “Climategate” and “Lord Monckton” just for starters. There’s really no end of evidence debunking the hoax, and all the pro-hoax data is extremely concentrated in tiny little group of peers-for-hire. The truth is out. Deny it all you like, but it’s not going to be suppressed now.
Report thisBy mandinka, December 19, 2009 at 10:16 pm Link to this comment
Thank goodness that barak came back hat in hand from Copenhagen. He was successful in ending the reckless Kyoto treaty so now there are no requirements in place to end any emissions. The free market and I emphasis “Free” market with no government regulations will devise solutions to improving air quality.
Report thisI think we can all thank Al Gordo for his efforts every time he speaks on warming we get a huge snow storm or sub zero weather.
Ahhhh the sweet smell of industry making stuff and putting people back to work
By daniel e rowell, December 19, 2009 at 2:14 am Link to this comment
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any common sense left in this world?? Just who
can cap in degrees the mean temperature. Has JESUS
returned? 1.5 or 2 degrees C. Just what person
that claims to have gray matter between their ears
thinks man can determine this ???
Anyway, all the climate models have been controlled
Report thisby guess who since the late seventies. James Hansen
knows this well, now acting the activist.
That is as amusing as Oh!!BAMA and Gore recieving
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Excuse me, but I prefer to believe Hamaker and day
of the week over present day climate pundits. The
man who first went to Congress and presented the
CO2 and climate crise in 1980 and got laughed at.
The man whose CO2 graphs are the most accurate
and most used.
By Shanon, December 19, 2009 at 2:02 am Link to this comment
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Part 2 of 2
Report thisThis heating trend actually lead to an Ice Age, wiping out much of the Earths plant and animal life.
But you have given another perfect example, with the polar bear issue.
It was Fox News that put out the story of how polar bear numbers were increasing from 5000 up to possibly 25000. And as always, they failed to give the rest of the facts around that number, but only gave enough to mislead and spread propaganda for their angry and manipulated patrons to regurgitate.
Two decades ago, the numbers were around 5000, due to over hunting. So laws were put into place to protect them from over hunting, and their populations began to increase to the numbers they are today. The human factor was removed and they began to bounce back. But alas, today the numbers are shrinking again due to a lack of habitat, some because of human communities growing, most because of the ice shelf disappearing at an increasing rate. This idea you have of the “Ice sheets advancing”. This is very true. They are thinning out, breaking away, and advancing out into the ocean where they will melt at an even more rapid rate. But I have sympathy for you point of view. I understand it is hard to care about any of that when you still have clean water to drink, plenty of food on your plate, a job to go to, and stability in your country. Empathy is tough when the problem has not clearly yet effected you personally. Of course, when it has reached us here at the top in a way that can’t be ignored, and it is too late to make changes, and people like you have finally been forced by the very hand of God, cause and effect, to see it, no one will give a rats behind whether you finally change your mind. We will all be too busy just trying to survive to have any say in things. And all of us outside of your little self contained fantasy world, pulling our hair out, trying to get you to give a damn and help us protect our children’s futures instead of compounding the problem, telling everyone you can to stop bucketing the water out, the ship isn’t even sinking, while you and a few others are standing above deck where the water hasn’t flooded yet, and those who are harvesting wood from the hull of the boat to burn to keep themselves warm, or to sell to you to buy wine to keep themselves drunk and happy, are the ones telling you all is fine, just ignore the reality of the situation.
I say shut your loud mouth and help us deal with the problem that this boat that God gave us to use is suffering.
Or don’t. Whatever. Not like your reachable anyway. You already know better than 95 percent of the actual scientists of the world, and better than those at the bottom who feel it first. Fox News told you.
Just keep boiling frog, the worldly power of the our civilization is ever hungry.
By Shanon, December 19, 2009 at 1:29 am Link to this comment
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Part 1 of 2
Report thisOk, person “Diedaily”. Just a little science here.
These people that you are saying are behind a global conspiracy, they ARE the people behind global warming. They are making ridiculous money off of oil, banking, market control, etc… with no accountability for the effect they are having not only on the environment, but on the emotional stability of the people of any country, including this one. I say no accountability, but it is more like they know that if they can create enough chaos and fear and instability, they can offer solutions that none of us would accept under normal circumstances. That is how your freedom is taken out from under your feet. You are supporting them with your statements. Hitler’s rise to power was a right wing rise to power. Mussolini’s rise to power, and he admitted openly that it was not classic fascism that his country was developing, but corporatism, his was a right wing rise to power. Always it is in reactionary ideology that such people and movements develop and rise to prominence, destroy countless innocent lives, and set their people back generations. You are an American like me, yes? Consider what happened to Germany after the Nazi’s fell. It was divided and broken up by the planet it victimized. What happened to Russia after the communists fell? Pain and division and starvation and chaos. What happened to Italy after Mussolini and WWII? What happened to Rome and it’s people after the fall of the Roman Empire? We call it the dark ages for a reason. When has the Earth and Her people ever been able to sustain the weight of a few bloated people while everyone else suffered and became more and more angry? And when have the few ever been able to maintain their power when they have finally strangled it out of everyone else? But how did they strangle it out to begin with? First a threat, imaginary, created, staged, take your pick. Then they blame factor X, X being the Jews, the Native Americans, the terrorists, the Goths, the Greeks, the Persians, the LEFT, etc.. And it is always the reaction of the people that they count on to give up their power, just for a bit, just a little bit, until they have it.
When Global Warming has reached it’s breaking point, when we can’t stand the pain of the life we live in within our self defecated environment, within our ruined financial situation, brought on by our own greed and callousness, and with our population numbers swelling absurdly even now well past the Earth’s capacity to maintain it, certain to increase even beyond the conservative numbers (conservative because some frogs believe the water isn’t coming to a boil, and giving them the real truth only throws them further into denial as they promptly come to a boil) as population and breeding increases as hardship and poverty increase. Then we will hand them whatever they desire, because they have the food and the guns and we have our children to feed and our angry neighbors to protect ourselves from.
It is absurd to assume that most of the scientific community doesn’t acknowledge climate change. Just because it is snowing in the winter time doesn’t mean it’s getting colder each year. This has been the fifth hottest year since we’ve started reading the weather. And even if it is cooler, by a hair, next year, that doesn’t mean the Earth is cooling or even slowing down in heating up. Scientists have been more precise in describing, with a name, what is going on, due to the misinformation deliberately put out there based on simple minded thought and deliberate clouding of facts. There will be cooling in places as the earth heats up, they now call it “Climate Change”, because it is imbalances everywhere, pressure changes causing not only heating on a larger scale, but cooling in places where heat would have been carried by things such as the Oceanic Conveyor Belt, which is effected, and has stopped before, due to warming periods and ice melting, and current desalination
By Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, December 19, 2009 at 12:32 am Link to this comment
just back from an action for climate justice at 1 Cal
Report thisbefore the event itself began, one gentleman came by and was screaming at us about how it is all a hoax, of course the deniers do tend to be screaming, as if that lends more credibility to the denial. Whether or not it is possible to effect a change in the course we’ve already established by altering our emissions footprint at this time is debatable, but for my whole life i’ve heard the science debated, meanwhile seeing the climate actually change with my own eyes, as will anyone who looks. So we can declare our powerlessness and take half measures that will avail us nothing, or we can really make some kind of drastic changes at every level, before they are made for us, and that will give us a small chance to avert the worst of the catastrophes if we are lucky and blessed.
By ofersince72, December 18, 2009 at 8:18 pm Link to this comment
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the climate collapse is not a hoax, the planet has
Report thishad plenty of them. This one is speeded up by
man’s pollution. I have followed the CO2 ppm since
the early eighties. I suspect we are well above the
reported 390 ppm that is being thrown around,but it
doesn’t matter, if we were to stop every vehicle and
shut down all carbon emmisions, it can’t be slowed
down or reversed. It is here, nature will take its
course. I do, however, love the social activism that
has been in response. The climate collapse, or carbon
recycling, whatever you want to call it is good for
planet earth, it will rejuvinate itself. That man
thinks he has power over this is absurd.
By mandinka, December 18, 2009 at 8:17 pm Link to this comment
Unfortunately warmers are scamming the US population with new taxes to subsidize the rest of the planet so they can consume even more!!! This is all about a world currency and making Trillionaires out of 2 or 3 individuals.
Report thisSo far the science is junk and been debunked
By Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, December 18, 2009 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment
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you know, although i don’t believe the deniers, because i can see the changes with my own eyes, as a bay swimmer, nevertheless, let’s pretend for a second that there was doubt about the science, which there isn’t. So, then , let’s do nothing, on the chance that maybe things will just cool down and we won’t lose our planet and will be able to continue living at the expense of those who already have nothing, well this just doesn’t add up. Remember, there ain’t another planet we can hop over to , dude.
Report thisSo it is far more logical to act like we are in the deep and deepening shit that we’ re really creating, and take any and all appropriate actions to combat the true terror of global warming, which we are actually locked in to, to avoid any further warming. You know, then if in a century we find out we are wrong, well, we can have a good laugh, but know that we acted to do something good to save the planet , instead of denying that we are asshole addicts destroying life and thought for all.
simply stated, we can’t afford to be wrong about the heating of our planet, but nothing will be lost and much gained if we find out we were, but , you know, if you had been swimming in the bay for 10 years, you wouldn’t wonder IF, you would only wonder, how much, how severe, how long until we stop making it worse
By mandinka, December 18, 2009 at 1:56 pm Link to this comment
They announce Copenhagen global warming summit in the mist of a blizzard and record low temperatures around the world.
Report thisThe recent data shows we are no in a cooling period and the only reason for this meeting is to reorganize the world and its wealth. Economists are saying that carbon credits will be a Trillion dollar industry. An industry that will produce nothing and just drive up prices a business perfectly suited for Al Gore
By DieDaily, December 18, 2009 at 7:30 am Link to this comment
So why won’t any of the anthropogenic global warming fraud/fantasy commenters answer to the science? Why have over 30,000 scientists said it’s a junk theory IN WRITING? Why is the Earth cooling? Why are the ice sheets advancing? Why have polar bear populations doubled? Why has the oceanic survey suddenly dropped its new ocean cooling data from its website? Why will nobody on the warming-fantasy side debate Lord Monckton or his countless compatriots? Why have reporters been run out of the COP 15 for asking questions?—repeat: JUST ASKING QUESTIONS? Why is the fact that about two thirds of Americans agree that the global warming swindle was just that being hushed up, even by the dauntless Amy Goodman? (HINT: look at the gov’t pro-climate-fantasy banner ads that frequent the top of this page). Come on fantasists, can’t we get one peep out of the you in response to the actual science? Or climate gate? Brrrrr. When we scientists bring up the facts of the matter it sure does get chilly in here!
Report thisBy Ouroborus, December 17, 2009 at 11:14 pm Link to this comment
I hope everybody has been following Amy Goodman’s
coverage of the travesty in Denmark. Hillary’s lame
attempt at blackmail will fail as will this conference.
Here’s a link to Thursdays show;
http://www.democracynow.org/
The irony is; this isn’t about the survival of the
Report thisplanet; it’s about the survival of us humans.
If we’re too stupid to live; then so be it…
By SX, December 17, 2009 at 12:51 am Link to this comment
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The planet will be fine. It has gone through a lot
Report thisworse than what humans have dished out. It will heal
itself long after humans are gone. The planet will be
fine the people are screwed.
By rollzone, December 16, 2009 at 9:14 pm Link to this comment
hello. i have always thought global climate change by humankind was a hoax perpetrated by individuals aiming at gross profits. cap and trade is a revenue diversion from the United States to poorer countries that i do not support. greenhouse gasses only exist in laboratories in ‘greenhouses’, and not in the reality of atmospheric conditions. our ocean is a cold environment that is heavily polluted, and we can soon benefit from recycling our wastes therein, however to envision happy fishes swimming about harmoniously is a fishbowl concept i can only gurgle with laughter over. oil consumption is unnecessary, and George poignantly stated our obsessed addiction to it, so let’s change. zero emission automobiles have a place in our future. my opinion is that corporations should be responsible for cleaning their own pollutions, and fines should reflect more than a slap on their wrist. the tax paying, working American public is in no way going to finance the development of other countries, while China profits the most from uncontrolled pollution. it is time America considers cancelling our membership to the United Nations.
Report thisBy jean Gerard, December 16, 2009 at 5:50 pm Link to this comment
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It is revealing that the U.S.Rep sees the U.S. as a “donor” when speaking about
reparations going from primary polluters to “third world” nations devastated by
Global Warming, as and when. Fact is, the U.S. is not being asked to “donate to
a charity”. It is being asked to pay up for past and continuing negligence.
If you are a “donor” you are standing outside of the problem, “feeling sorry for”
the victims, but claiming no real connection or affiliation, admitting no guilt or
responsibility.
If you are “paying reparations,” you are admitting your responsibility and willing
to try to make up for previous mistakes you made. You are involved,
connected, assuming responsibility.
So long as primary polluters (whether nations, corporations or users) deny their
responsibility and refuse to admit their guilt, the verbal rampages of the “UN
Conspiracy, World Government plot” cranks will find it easy to undermine facts
and awareness of possibilities.
It’s strange but true that it is often easier to believe lies than truths, especially
Report thiswhen they absolve you from guilt.
By bozh, December 16, 2009 at 2:08 pm Link to this comment
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To me, at least half of earthlings live in an antinatural way.
How can it be pronatural to have a 2-5k kg vehicle carry an 80 kg person and for 20-50 kms a day?
Or not to cook for self much unsalted, unfatted, and unsugared food?
Or sit from 6-15 hrs a day and meanwhile avoid steps and use cages and escalators.
All this + more laziness just to please own feudal lords and warlords who need the money to manuafacture ever more and ‘better’ weapons to kill more and more ‘aliens’. ?All of which are innocent.
Note, please, there is no progrees w.o. regress. U were hoodwinked that there can be progrees w.o. regress and that the ‘progress’ can go on on and on or w.o.end?
Report thisThere is no american dreams w.o. american nightmares! Also sprach die Nature, but not the warlords! tnx
By NYCartist, December 16, 2009 at 12:49 pm Link to this comment
I have been following the UN conference daily via DemocracyNow on WBAI (see http://www.takebackwbai.org) and also on the website of DN http://www.democracynow.org.
After I posted DN’s website and that it’s live, the only international, daily, live inside the Bella Center show last Monday, I’ve been unable to post a comment on the Guardian. No answer as to why. Maybe it’s the new system that when I fill in the posting box (I’m registered), it takes it and the comment disappears.
Today’s show is very strong. I totally ignore the climate change deniers because there is no point in arguing.
Report thisBy anon32, December 16, 2009 at 12:35 pm Link to this comment
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Amy, Amy, Amy, don’t be such a useful fool. The reason that the talks are failing and that demonstrators are treated criminally is that Darth Vader is stepping out of the shadows. The movement has been hijacked by the one world dictatorship forces. They are showing their true face and their complete contempt for the little countries and the little people. Their aim, as always, is unimaginable wealth for the few and human cattle status for the rest. Climate change is just a smokescreen for them.
Report thisBy Gordy, December 16, 2009 at 11:39 am Link to this comment
Dayahka, I agree - shipwrecked on a desert island,
Report thisnothing can justify one survivor hoarding all the
coconuts for himself. Or economic systems are complex,
and this conceals the simple realities of greed and
deprivation. Our island Earth can’t give us unlimited
energy as fast as we demand.
By Gordy, December 16, 2009 at 11:31 am Link to this comment
The concept of a ‘climate refugee’ is logical and
should not require that blame be established.
Even if it turns out that there is no such thing as
anthropogenic global warming, a refugee is a refugee,
and nations that can accommodate them should. To
merely demonstrate that their habitat has been
rendered unliveable by a change in climate should be
enough to make their case for asylum.
The ability and obligation of the nation of origin to
house the refugee should of course be considered. If
a low-lying country already suffering from population
pressures suffers massive loss of land to rising sea-
levels, other nations must take their share of the
burden.
I think that this process would be bogged down and
Report thisstalled if there was an attempt to send the most
refugees to the countries deemed to be the most
responsible for climate-change, or to make those
countries pay reparations in some way.
By Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, December 16, 2009 at 8:31 am Link to this comment
Thanks Amy for covering the climate crisis, the real terror we shall leave our children unless real changes are made in how we conduct business, the concepts of responsibility and citizenship, instead of the same ole ship of fools we are drowning in. But we are gonna drown together, while the planet is crying for to be saved. Safe for all life, but instead we are destroying species and drying our water. One thing i think is missing from all the talk is a focus upon the ocean, not just the rising sea levels, but the quality of the water itself. People think of the planet in terms of land area, but it’s the ocean that has absorbed our poison and toxins and is overloaded, and needs healing. The planet needs to be able to rest, to breathe, to not be forced to produce and consume all the time. To have fish for the sake of swimming, not just eating.
20 years ago, the problems of probable greenhouse warming were already suspected; rather than acting in accordance with basic precautionary principle, we snubbed our noses at the need for change, and that same point is where we still stand. It is gonna take some kind of massive shift in consciousness, and huge changes in the way we exist as people, the concepts of work, community, society. We have to get back to manageable networks of local support and care provision. We have to start to tear up the unnecessary roads for flowers and vegetables in their stead, while building a spiderweb of bicycle pathways, safe for walking too.
People have to change from a car culture to one of perhaps walking, railroads, and alternate existence
that doesn’t revolve around cars, we’ll all be a lot better off for it.
Cars are just not working for our planet.
Of course, it will be hard for folks to let them go, they are so ingrained into our being; it will have to be largely voluntary, but we really sort of have to go on an all out effort to educate, change, and just start talking to each other, treating each other at least as decently as we might treat our pets.
Going vegan will be more and more important for the planet
People will be well served to swim, to help stay cool, and to be in contact with the water.
Social networking sites don’t really provide friends. People will just start taking their own initiatives to do whatever little we can to make the planet better , because we can’t wait for no stinkin government to do it for us.
hey, thanks for reading, peace and love to you, and blessings for all. Remember, the rich folks are starting to understand that there’s only one planet for the children, the ghettoes and apartheid is gonna have to be a thing of the past because if we don’t all learn to be able to live well, to survive together, we’re gonna be sinking in the stew we steamed up .
Report thisYeah, we defrosted the freezer, and now we’re gonna have to cool out, and try and let some of that ice come back, or slow down that heating, turn off the ovens, turn every thing a little bit slower
yeah, change it all
but then, i never thought we had really done the best we could, perhaps a chance to make a place that is actually sustainable is not too late?
By Duc Tran, December 16, 2009 at 3:33 am Link to this comment
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If Vandana Shiva can prove that the USAF is using HAARP to affect the rain clouds in India, she needs to provide evidence. Otherwise, I am left to believe that those accusations are based on the science fiction that carbon dioxide is creating climate change.
Report thisAfter watching her interview, it is clear that this woman wants the US to pay for just about anything as long as it isn’t India that pays. Shiva knows that global warming is a myth. I despise and still respect that attitude, except it just so happens to be married with this despicable power grab by the banking, financial elite to implement a global tax based on carbon emissions.
Who here believes that mother nature is going to pay her share of taxes? How bout the deers or polar bears? What about plants, trees and ... etc? That just leaves the humans. Damn it! If only I can pass myself off to the global tax collector, that I am in fact a zebra.
I thought that as the central banking vampires reach further and further for the globe, they would eventually have to expose themselves to the light of scrutiny. Instead Amy Goodman happens to be so kind as to cast her considerable shadow over them. Why? Why Amy? Is it not the job of journalist to ask questions? Not be married to any consensus?
Here is what 350.org has as a “pledge” in a bright blue box for all potential spam victims:
“I am ready for an ambitious, fair, and binding global climate deal. I call on world leaders to pass climate policies based on sound science and strong enough to get us back to 350.”
Tell me Amy that this is not an NGO that John Perkins would warn us against trusting? We haven’t forgotten about all the color revolution that Soros sponsored in Eastern Europe have we? Then there is Tuvalu and Maldives with there outrageous claims and antics at the Hopenhagen stage. Everyone that will read this can look up these two island ‘nations’ on the government monitored website wikipedia. What is this about a coat of arms? And Tuvalu’s has a royal anthem, God save the Queen??? What’s that rectangular thing on the upper left corner of Tuvalu’s flag? My my, if only I had the money those islands look like great vacation destinations. There is no mention of there great science academy or climatologists… Where did they get the data and money for all this hoopla?
If your goal is to turn democracy now to comedy central, these shows aren’t going to be funny until the people achieve victory over global tyranny. So I do hope you are going to save them for re-broadcast, I intend to be watching it in a packed house.
While you are busy fanning the flames of the mob and hysteria to your audience, people like Lord Monckton and CFACT are fighting in the trenches.
http://www.cfact.org/a/1652/Monckton-names-names-on-Climategate
If someone can disprove these scientists let me know, I hate to be lied to.
By Dayahka, December 16, 2009 at 1:05 am Link to this comment
One just and fair solution to the Copenhagen issues would be for the US to say that it will reduce oil-consumption from 25% of the world’s total to 5%, commensurate with its population. It can do so by developing renewable energy sources or any other way it chooses, including reduction of transportation, reduction of its wars and military machine, and so on. This would be a meaningful and verifiable measure. No need for a cap-and-trade scam, no need for any targets of emission reductions. Other nations could be rewarded for the degree to which they did not use oil; for example, if a country has 1% of the world’s population, then it is entitled to use 1% of the oil. If it did not use all of its allotment, then it would be rewarded.
Report thisBy DieDaily, December 15, 2009 at 11:16 pm Link to this comment
Well, Mrs. Goodman, you are edging closer and closer to the truth on these issues. Let’s just remember that pollution is huge problem but CO2 is not pollution in any sense or in any way, according the majority view of scientists. Polar bear numbers are skyrocketing and they are certainly in no danger of extinction. Copenhagen is an illegal bureaucratic coup intended to usher in a criminal global “government”. Google “Lord Monckton climate gate”. Visit
http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-Stanford_University_Environment_Poll_Topline.pdf
to see that ONLY 31% of Americans believe there is scientific consensus that global warming exists. (Page 3 question 22)
I love your reporting on so many other topics, Mrs. Goodman, especially your anti-war anti-censorship work. I support you. But PLEASE keep edging toward the real truth that man-made global warming is a fraud and a scam. Don’t worry, 69% of the public already knows this…you won’t lose readers, you’ll gain them.
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