The planet's future does not concern us. Starvation in Africa does not concern us. Beetle kill in the Interior of BC does not raise a flicker of distress in anyone but unemployed forestry workers. Future potential drought and consequent hunger in Asia does not worry us - even if those Asians without water have nuclear weapons. The disappearance of small Pacific Islands like the Maldives under the waves is not a bother to us. An ice free Arctic will not be a problem to anyone except those pesky polar bears. We will carry on - down the road to disaster - no matter how Lumumba Di - Aping, the negotiator for the G 77 group of countries, and the President of the Maldives natter on. We will not listen - their words do not concern us.
That is implicit in the Copenhagen Accord : it is a nonbinding agreement with no targets. Any mention of containing temperature rises to 1.5 C has been struck from the agreement. Even more astonishingly, so has any effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050.
To hell with the politicians! We will have to find a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without them: we must create a velvet climate revolution. Tonight, I cannot imagine how - but we will find a way. We must - we cannot accept institutionalized intergenerational and social injustice.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
"HOPE is the thing with feathers,That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all" Emily Dickinson
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