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In defense of leaders at Copenhagen

Yes – I know that it was a crummy outcome. But what did you expect? If Obama, Rudd etc came up with even a half-decent agreement – they would be out of office in no time, with the domestic outcry. Then somebody worse would be in office.

(Shades of Hilaire Bellooc’s advice, on the boy who had his head bitten off by a lion – “always keep a hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse”)

As long as the public, egged on by the media, see economic groswth and consumerism as the desirable lifestyle – there is no hope for reducing C02 emissions.

It’s Christmas – what a symptom of our public disease – with everybody rushing around buying more unnecessary stuff – to watch on their great plasma screens, in their McMansions etc.  It’s US – the world public – who consume all the junk that keeps the factories and mines roaring.

I just hope that the world wakes up to this before catastrophe awakens us properly.

December 22, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews, energy | antinuclear, Australia, climate change, energy