john_kidder said:
Qvart said:
taabru45 said:
Whats the real purpose of The climate meeting in Copenhagen
A study of how global warming will lead to more scantily-clad Danish women?
My (Norwegian) daughter is there now, so the conference has served to attract at least one beautiful woman.
The purpose of the conference is obvious: leaders have a positive duty to act in the face of humanity's first common and world-wide crisis. They are gathered in Copenhagen in search of a strategy to mitigate as much as possible the continuing warming of the globe and to prepare for the hardship that is certain now to befall millions of people no matter what is done at this late stage.
The conspiracy theories and blame for various "others" so casually tossed around by an ever-diminishing band of noisy naysayers are neither interesting nor amusing. The self-interested parties engaged in the campaign against climate science are like the late unlamented tobacco lobbyists - their voice too will shrink to the vanishing point just as that of the tobacco "doctors" has. And the quicker the better. Lead, follow, or get out of the bloody way.
And to see all this as a plot directed against the United States, or against "capitalism", is astonishing, amazing narcissism. There are 6.8 billion people on the planet; 300 million of whom live in the USA. And the "free market" of all-knowing sovereign consumers acting in their own interest has always been a myth, never a reality. Sorry, West, but it's absurd to imagine so much energy directed against so few.
If we had personal advisors, doctors for example, who expressed such a strong common diagnosis as the world's climate scientists, most of us would listen to them. The others, I guess, are perfectly free to take their individual bodies to the faith healers.
But there's much more than simple personal risk here - this is (yes, it actually is) a risk for all of humanity and many other species as well. So of course religion enters at times like this: there are profound moral and ethical principles at stake. I'd like to think that I could walk as Christ or the Buddha might have advised had they been here now - compassion first, concern always for the poorest and least powerful, and fellow-feeling with all other sentient beings.
So I'm not going to "debate" this here any more. I'll use my tiny energy to write to politicians and to talk with young people about the sort of planet they expect to inherit. And I will agitate along with the rest of the conspirators for countries and industries to act as quickly as possible, with as much energy as possible, to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. It's the least and the most I can do.
Signing off now,
John[/quote
And John, it is absurd unless "the few" have much wealth and you need to conjure up a way to seperate them from that wealth. "Global Warming" is as good as any I guess.
The idea of "World Government" has been kicked around for centuries. The League of Nations gave the powers that were then a vehicle and it didn't pan out. Then, the United Nations. Now my friends, the world in on the brink, and the only obstacle left is the United States. Danged Americans, but they are working feverishly on demolishing the United States....get ready, here it comes, and much faster than I thought it would.
West
I still contend that if it weren't for "Global Warming", we'd still be in the ice age...........and that's a fact :lol: . So y'all go ahead with your Copenhagen thread, I'll sit this one out....... :wink: except to answer Steffan by saying, Steffan, there is no other way to bring the U.S. (or the rest of the world) under the rule of the U.N.......just think about it and do your own research. The U.N. will legislate and they will enforce........and not a single one of them elected to office by you, me or any American.....or Canadian for that matter. Think about it. That alone should give ANYONE with a belief in democracy something to consider......it's a very bad idea!
