The G8 summit of the world’s richest nations plus Russia and some “developing” guests (India, China) just ended, and for the post-game show on what did and didn’t get accomplished, The Economist wins first prize. They agree with just about everybody else in saying the meetings didn’t produce anything faintly resembling a satisfying climate change solution—our leaders kept it vague—but they argue that Bush took a baby step forward.
Basically, the G8’s collective enviro vow this year was to adopt and implement laws that would cut carbon emissions in half by 2050. It’s a day late and a dollar short, environmentalists say, and I agree, but since Bush has wriggled his way out of agreeing to any kind of specific resolution about cutting carbon in the past, this is progress.
I mean, the specifics aren’t that specific or anything. It’s left up in the air whether emissions will be cut to half of 2005 levels or half of 1990 levels, for example. And there’s nothing like an outline for which industries would have to step up and take hits and/or change their ways to meet the goals. But the point is, one-half, 2050, these are numbers. It’s sort of a start.
Image: flickr/Jaume D’Urgell
July 11th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Yawn. When Bush is gone and the silliness of CO2 causing climate change dies out what will people do without someone to blame? All the easy answers, that just take the government to agree to one more goal, one more limitation of our own lives and everything will be made good and the righteous shall ascend into heaven, will be gone.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Isn’t it apparent? We’ll blame the next guy in line! Bush got off to a great start though. Before he went on his 8 month golf trip at the start of his first term he cut funding to schools, healthcare, clean-air act, and several things that made people happy so he could relocate the spending of that money to the military and weapon development programs. He made himself an easy target and has forced everything downhill since. *shrug*
I haven’t read the papers on ‘global warming’ but I adhere to my highly uneducated guesses of what’s going on. If you consider the natural cycle of the earths climate changes and the combined effects of mass deforestation, 8 billion humans, a few continents spewing out unimaginable quantities of CO2, and the few other things that could potentially expediate the process of natural climate change… it might start to make a little sense.
Don’t buy the media and ignore propaganda but give a little more thought to things than ‘this must be true!’ or ‘this is such a load!’
I can’t wait to see what things the next mighty leader of the US gets around to to absorb our full attention.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Totally classless use of the picture.
Commenter “Bystander” continues on in the classless vein by lying about just about everything. He couldn’t even get the world’s population right.
In the end – where’s the argument? It was lost in all of the useless finger pointing. You first have to prove YOUR case of cutting emissions down to some arbitrary figure. You have yet to do that.
Now here’s where you demonize your opponents without bringing any substantive argument.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
likwidshoe, I think you are bit over sensitive. I’ve always thought Bush to be a joke. I was making fun and sharing My opinion. Aren’t you being a bit hypocritical about continuing a ‘classless vein’ and sharing in the ‘useless finger pointing’? I’m not going to try and defend my argument, because really I don’t have one. I’m just a simple layperson and average US citizen.
And my apologies, the ‘current estimated world pop.’ is only 6.8 billion. I stand by my guess, though, as you have provided no information to counter them. I can’t change my opinion without learning where the error in my thinking is.
Btw.. ever consider following your own advice?
And I like the picture, but I have a better one. It’s a lovely photoshop of Bush biting into a kitten as if it were a corn on the cob.
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July 16th, 2008 at 5:16 am
This is all such crap. I hate to break it to you environmental utopians, but the G8 can’t control the global thermostat, with Bush’s blessing or not. Let me know when the G8 can control the suns output and cycles. You global warming zealots have so overplayed your hand that the masses see your collective ass and we aren’t buying. Take your carbon credits and shove ‘em up your! Rabble rabble.
July 19th, 2008 at 6:04 am
We should just leave all of these rusty outdated privateers behind. The Earth belongs to the children anyway, within their hearts there is LIFE and they are counting on us to clean up their world. We should start today on making a much better tomorrow through the moving ahead of one tiny baby step at a time, without waiting for someone to tell us in which direction to move. Besides, we are a society of leaders anyway, TV just makes us believe we harbor not the power to change things. We don’t have to tune into the pacification channels if we no longer wish to . . .
Let’s see what happens now, after we are all awake, and thinking like the normal, caring, compassionate individuals we are supposed to behave like . . .
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Bystander said, I’m not going to try and defend my argument, because really I don’t have one.
Obviously. You’ve just got immature babble.
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