The President of Venezuela was right when he said “if the climate was a bank, they would have already saved it”. After the world financial crisis and quick jump to action to save the worlds banks with billions of dollars “lent” in bailout money around the world; the latest disastrous outcome at Copenhagen, makes the above statement seem right on the money.
Along the lines of the United Nations and other various bilateral or World organisations the failure at Copenhagen has shown yet again that a conglomerate of interests/nations just doesn´t work. Only bilateral action can be relied upon to make any meaningful steps to halting our march towards climate disaster.
It’s now time for individual nations, bilaterally or not, to make their own commitment to abating climate change and move forward by themselves. Waiting on any world body to decide anything meaningful has no track record of working. Look at Rwanda, Darfur, Croatia etc the UN has proven a political and economic hole that soaks up billions of dollars in money that could be better used creating jobs in the green economy.
The planet needs individual action not world in-action. Globalisation for want of a better word is dead, experience shows us it doesn’t function.
