Wonderful Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
Climate Change Copenhagen Conference
In the run up to the United Nations conference next month – Climate Change Copenhagen – Is Anyone Listening? – a comment fromm Alvin Hopper on the Times – (Quick get there before Mr Murdoch makes it inpenetrable by humans or search engines – smart move or misguided desperation?) article Copenhagen Fail – observed the following which is a timely dose of good old fashioned common sense.
It may well be that global warming, if it continues, will adversely affect humanity. Even so, rather than just concentrating on reduction of carbon emissions, we should take a far broader view of the global situation.
Consider these facts:
- Petroleum reserves are rapidly being depleted.
- Much of the world’s arable land is being lost or marginalised.
- Water supplies are getting scarcer.
- Vast areas of forest (especially rainforest) are being destroyed.
- The oceans are polluted and overfished.
- On top of all this, the world’s population continues to climb.
In short, not only are the earth’s finite resources rapidly being used up, but our demands on them are escalating. Surely humanity needs to implement fundamental changes if we are to avoid global catastrophe?
Copenhagen Climate Change Talks – A Distraction?
Viewed in that light, I think it is a mistake to concentrate so much effort and attention on carbon emissions. In fact, “Copenhagen” and discussions about the reducing emmisions to lessen the effects of climate change may just a distraction from other dire, and unprecedented, problems that we face. It is mistake to think that a reduction in carbon emission (the effect of which is quite uncertain) would necessarily do very much to reduce these problems.
Anyone up for a merry old sing along with Danny Kaye – Wonderful!
I see you are interested in global warming and everything else that comes with it. I would just like to share my disappointment at the outcome of the Copenhagen climate council. The summit was supposed to halt temperature rise by cutting greenhouse gases. But after two weeks of negotiating it ended in a weak political accord that does not force any country to reduce emissions and has no legal standing anyway. As a result the world is “one step closer to a humanitarian crisis”, according to the Royal Society. It looks like it is every man for themselves but if your far away neighbors don’t do anything to halt it, what is the point. Here in Scotland, Scottish Hydro has shown the way forward with supplying clean scottish guff and electricity from sources like, hydro damns and wind turbine farms but is it all in vein? It could well be.
Danny Kaye is the best, good song on this video. I like this song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6ktYq0Yxk ( Danny Kaye and Louis rmstrong.