…and any other issue that may get you riled up. Because it is all irrelevant if we don’t have a planet to live on. Yup, that’s right, all our problems, all our high points, all our crimes, all our achievements will be for nothing if we don’t get an agreement on climate change.
The summit in Copenhagen was a disaster. The agreement a complete farce. It would have been better to use it as toilet paper. At least then it would’ve had a purpose. Leaders like Obama and Wen Jiabao have tried to spin it as a starting point to something better. But we all know that is a load of hot air. No I am not going to make some dumb joke about CO2. This is not the time for jokes. If the planet heats up by just 2 degrees, our country is going to look more like the Sahara than the savannah. So if you want to live in a fricking tent with a bunch of camels, well, then you go ahead and make a joke. Make as many as you like. But I can guarantee that you won’t be having the last laugh. No, that will be reserved for the vulture that sits above your dying kids waiting for them to take their last breath. You’ve seen that photo. A scene that looks so removed from our everyday life. Well, we’re barrelling towards it a lot faster than you think on a choo-choo train of energy consumption and selfishness. And when I say we, I mean we: none of us will be spared. Don’t matter if you got a mansion or a billion in the bank, when there is nowt left to buy, there is nowt left to buy.
Some say the problem can’t be solved. That it is too complicated, too complex, beyond our control, fraught with intricacies that the average man can’t understand. Well, those people can bugger off to the desert too. The solutions to climate change are not beyond our reach. They just require a willingness to solve them. And that is where it all goes wrong. Our willingness is lacking. We don’t want to solve the problem. And we have elected leaders that reflect that opinion. Zuma, Lula, Obama, Brown, Wen and all the other leaders went to Copenhagen without a mandate. They went to Copenhagen knowing their nations don’t really want to solve climate change. Knowing the people of the world don’t really want to do the hard yards and fix the problem. We’d rather party now and pay later. Who really cares if our kids live in a desert? Camels make nice pets.
P.S. To my gay bros in Uganda, the WC2010 dudes, Schabir, you know I love you. I was just trying to make a point. Gareth Cliff, you’re still a cock.
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Ha ha ha, very dry, and very witty. All those in the Garden Route are already experiencing climate change - as they lie on the beach, recalling the Rime of the Ancient Mariner ‘Water, water everywhere …and not a drop to drink’. Let’s hope people start realising this is serious. And I agree with you on Mr Cliff.
the only thing we need to sgree upon is how to radically reduce the human population as all else is just irrelevant or a product of over population - but wait why worry - mother earth will do it for us.
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yes! good article dave-o! an interesting angle on a very serious issue.. something people need to think a bit more about, especially before they buy their next hummer.. and haha, funny p.s, gareth cliff.. gimme a break
And whilst you’re on about that, please get that pesky volcano in the Phillipines to behave why don’t you? We don’t want the equivalent of 10 decades of CO2 and ash spewing into our atmosphere in an eye blink do we?
PS - Gareth Cliff is my hero!
Thank you Owen! I couldn’t agree more. Yet this seems to be a taboo subject. It’s the proverbial elephant in the room. Overpopulation is the no. 1 cause of global warming. But no-one wants to address this. Oi …
David, David, David, you need to do some work on this global warming theory of yours and the IPCC, and then realise that Al Gore is as about as newsworthy as Gareth Cliff. By all means use the “global warming” terrorism to promote sustainable use of our planet (via solar tech, reducing rampant excess, green manufacturing and construction practise, stopping genetic engineering of foodstuff to try and feed a huge population that should not exist in the first place, etc), cut down on pollution and generally live more mindful lives. But please don’t put humans in charge of trying to steer the good Earth. We have f#cked it up enough already, trying to fix something we did not cause could be the death knell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequence). Climate change is a large cycle that cannot be influenced by man. It will get hotter, then colder, with some spells in between. And Al Gore and his mates will make piles of money from scaring us all to death. ISBN: 0826476201
If global warming/climate change is at crisis point, explain why the worlds leaders are ego bashing and negotiating/grubbing to gain advantage for their nations? The answer seems to be that climate change is just a grand scam, follow the money and see where it leads.
One thing all countries can do now to limit carbon is save/grow the worlds tropical forests (not sure but read somewhere they are responsible for up to 40% of carbon capturing) but this was not even on the Copenhagen table. Why not???, my cynical mind explains that this solution provides very little big income streams for the rich and powerful so is ignored. It is also ignored by bloggers/talk shows and politicians proving that the world is not in crisis or this easy short term fix would be embraced by all people with integrity.
Over population is not the problem, over consumption is; the US with 300 million consumes more than China/India (+- 2.2 billion) combined.
Thank you for saying what should be shouted from the rooftops and have earned me the title “eco terrorist” or “mean greenie” in trying to do so. I am comforted to know that I am not as alone as I thought.
The one point often missed in the attempt to anthropomorphize the intricate web of systems we call the Earth, is that it has no emotions and could not give a damn about one species that would not live in balance with the rest. At some point humanity’s collective abuse of the system will cause it to reach a crisis point that no amount of summits or politics or money will fix. On that day we are in big trouble. The signs are there already. Abnormal droughts, blizzards, etc. Humanity, wake up and see the signs! We cannot afford the disgusting excesses anymore, especially the population excess.
To all you jetsetting Cornucopian denialists with the 4×4’s: Wake up and smell the pollution! You are rushing us to edge of the cliff at ballistic speed with your selfish greed. Start thinking how you will explain to your grandchildren what a whale used to look like.
Very interesting - but, come to think of it, it’s taken over a hundred years for the ordinary person, like you and I, to really take this “climate change” issue really seriously - in the past 15-years, world leaders have been meeting over glasses of 24 year old whisk(ie)s discussing girlfriends and boyfriends, then, there was the Tsunami, New Orleans, Phillipines, Obama, Malema, Tiger Woods and ofcourse, Gareth Cliff - and now, the ordinary person knows what climate change, is really about.
Yeah, except (please note) nobody was asked whether they wanted the planet saved or not. We don’t know whether the average schmuck is willing to make sacrifices to cut carbon emissions, because nobody in power has suggested doing so. The best we know is that the average schmuck seems suspicious of the people who tell us that carbon emissions don’t matter.
That blimming Mayon volcano in the Phillipines is single-conedly spewing more greenhouse gases than all the world’s humans have done ever since we learnt to walk upright. And its neighbour, Mt Pinatubo, did likewise some years back. So too Mt St Helens, and Etna and Vesuvius and Krakatoa and Ruapehu etc.
Every “wetland” which is seen as a precious natural treasure for bird and aquatic life is secretly really a foetid swamp, producing many kilotons of noxious methane gas every year.
The globe warms and the globe cools. It’s natural.
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Ha ha ha, very dry, and very witty. All those in the Garden Route are already experiencing climate change - as they lie on the beach, recalling the Rime of the Ancient Mariner ‘Water, water everywhere …and not a drop to drink’. Let’s hope people start realising this is serious. And I agree with you on Mr Cliff.
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