Rich nations 'give up' on new climate treaty until 2020
Ahead of critical talks and despite pledge for new treaty by 2012, biggest economies privately admit likelihood of long delay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/20/rich-nations-give-up-climate-treaty
This is what happens when our societies are controlled by right-wing establishments beholden to non-person entities like governments, conglomerates, corporations, foundations, militarises, and others who have no legal or moral accountability to anyone in the societies they claim to serve. They see every person as a nothing more than a fucking number in their database, representing their level of product consumption, and how they squeeze as much money from them further, as quickly as possible. And often times, many of these entities either control other entities to the point of placing their interests over others, or they span across several entities (e.g. a multi-national conglomerate) that they are effective immune to any kind of rational discourse.
The iron triangle of government, industry, and military has a stranglehold on our future, and freed from any kind of accountability or reality, are slowing pushing us all to an inevitable demise.
This is also the result when the so-called most powerful and richest nations are allowed to dictate to everyone else our own fate.
Even if such an agreement were to actually happen at that time, I fear it'll be too late. The damage done to the planet will be irreversible.
It's very hard to escape the conclusion that none of the entities described above are ever really going to provide any kind of answer or solution to the coming - irreversible - crisis facing all of us. And like a cancer that couldn't care if the patient dies, it pursues it's own financial, political and military interests with virtually no thought or care or concern to any one's actual future, including really their own.
What is the answer?
Our previous centuries of instruments of society - like the entities described above - are products from a day and age where they simply don't scale. They simply don't have the capacity to really aid all peoples in all societies on either a global or long-term way.
The only thing I can think of is - the people of the planet, the overwhelming populations must find a way across all nations, states, provinces, regions, cities, towns, and so forth to unite with the scientists, engineers and the like a implementing a lasting solution to save the planet - on our own. We must find a way to come together and work together as a single planetary guardian - and solve this problem on our own.
To that end - we must find a way for this global society to communicate together, speak effectively the same language of understanding of the complex nature of the problem, and devise a long-lasting solution. It's a very difficult task.
And even if this were to happen - is there really a solution? I mean let's face it - this problem was caused by us. Our consumption of fossil fuels, our cars, our planes, trains, boats, our roadways; the solutions to our development from previous centuries now threaten our common future demise now. How does one simply rip out centuries of development and replace it with something far less damaging? Telling people to simply stop driving cars and ride bicycles isn't the answer.
And ... even if magically there were a solution and the will to implement it - and it could be done in spite of the efforts of the establishment entities above likely doing everything to stop it - could such a thing be implemented successfully, and in time? Have we reached a point of no return already?
I don't have the answer to any of these questions. Admittedly my own personal problems leave me very much a hypocrite in that I'm unable to really contribute anything meaningful or positive to solving the problem myself.
Like a lot of people, I have many grave concerns, many problems of my own, and very little time to solve these larger issues, let alone straight focus.
I guess right now, the only thing I have going - is that I know that our current way of life is really no way of life at all. We're on a path to demise, and maybe not my generation, but the next one, and the next one, and the next one, will really start to see all our last millenium's worth of global destruction.
That's all I know - I wish there were more.
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