http://focusweb.org/content/strike-four-climate-change-climate-space-rethink-analysis-and-strategies
by Pablo Solon
In baseball, when you have 3 strikes, you are out. In the climate change negotiations we already have 4 strikes. Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban and now Doha. Four attempts and each of the results were bigger failures than the last. The emission reductions should have been at least 40 to 50% until 2020 based on 1990 levels. Four COPs later, the current numbers are down to a measly 13 to 18%. We are now well on our way to a global temperature increase of 4 to 8ºC.
“The perfect is the enemy of the good” is what some UN negotiators say. To which we can reply: “When our house is burning down, the worst thing you can do is lie to us”. It’s time to rethink what is happening and try to find new strategies to avoid a global catastrophe.
It isn’t because of the lack of evidence
Climate change is no longer a theoretical possibility. It has real impacts on the lives of people, nature and the economy. ….(more).
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