Copenhagen

Hi All,

I am back after quite a hiatus. I was watching skeptically the circus going in a faraway land called Copenhagen and as if God had implemented my thoughts, the conference ended with no solid result to show. After all the attention and hype this conference received, we certainly deserved better, much better.

We had expected some sort of a legally binding agreement which would mitigate climate change and incentivise migration to greener technologies. Something that would put the brakes on development that damaged the environment irreversibly. Something that would scorn on usurping resources without any consideration for sustainability. But that something never came. If the leaked draft is to be believed, it is never going to come either.

So at the end of Copen[Hope]Hagen, what we have is loads of world leaders who had a gala time at the expense of taxpayer's money and worst still emitted tonnes of pollutants during their stay. [Limousine rentals companies were on a roll during the conference period, so much so that some had brought in cars from other cities.]

As I suspected Copenhagen became an exercise of geo political influence, convenient acronyms[BASIC...Brazil, SA, India and China!] and wasted time. Rich countries intentionally flaunting their wealth, the powerful arm twisting their meek counterparts and the poor hoping to grab whatever is thrown at them.

So this is what I saying. Let’s have more of these useless conferences. Let’s keep fighting among ourselves. Let’s come up with some arcane law which exists only on paper. Lets have more of these silly acronyms[How about RACE, Romania, Afghanistan, Canada, Egypt]. Let’s ignore the fact that we all share the same environment. Let’s keep polluting our environment and consuming natural resources as if there was no tomorrow. Let’s put the onus of fighting climate change on our children, who will pass it on to their kids. [Hey there are just following our diligent footsteps!]