Basically they are complaining that the current political governance of the world fails when it comes to global warming. "We can forget about fixing the planet's ecosystems and climate until we have fixed government systems, a panel of leading international environmental scientists declared in London on Friday."
Politicians can never come up with solutions for anything like this. They have only one thing on their mind, getting elected and re-elected so their time frame is the length of time between elections.
And because we have to get elected politicians to agree on what to do for a problem that is long term it will never happen. And even if we did now, the facts are that no matter what other countries do, no matter what Europe, America or Russia do, the only country that now matters is China. If they do nothing, and it looks like they will do nothing because they are now bringing a new coal fired power plant on line every 3 days, plants that will last for 60 years or more, if they do nothing, anything anyone else does will make no difference. And if everyone else does nothing but China does all it can (which means going back to farming rice for a living with oxen and poverty for everyone in the country) then global warming doesn't happen.
So unless you want to make china take one for the team and go back to being a country of rice farmers then we have global warming.
Or if the rest of the world went back to the dark ages, all modern electronics, electricity, transportation, cities went back to what they were before the automobile was made. We all went back to farming and manual labour, sailing ships and horses then we might be able to stop global warming, maybe, but probably not likely.
Global warming is going to happen.
We can't stop it now without gutting our economies losing our consumer lifestyle, losing all of our modern conveniences, medicine, internet and out ability to have a life span of more than 45 years like the 70+ years we have today. Unless we all want to give that up we will not be able to stop global warming.
So instead of wasting all of the effort and generating all of the hot air over trying to stop it, instead, we should be dealing with how to live with it. We have done something that is going to make changes to the whole planet. People will lose the places they live. species will be lost, rain will fall differently than it does now, some places will become deserts, others will get more rain.
We will have to deal. We will have to let people move to new homes, we will have to fish for different fish, eat grains grown in new areas, find new ways to grow food in places it wouldn't grow before.
We can not anticipate all of the problems that will happen, where a desert will grow or shrink, how much the water availability will change. All we can do now is guess and then try to scare people with the worst thing we can dream up and that doesn't help. We have to say yes it's going to happen, and agree that we all will help when it does. No need to talk about what will happen, or that we will only help if this or that happens, just all agree, when stuff starts to happen we will help. Deal with how we will help when it happens because I guarantee when it happens it won't be what we think will happen.
And agree with no strings attached. We will help, period. Sign the dotted line.
Why? I know we as a species have been through a lot before; Ice ages, biblical floods, plagues, volcanic winter, the worst of course we did to ourselves, wars that spanned the globe. We have grown from each and together we will make it through global warming.
SO we can't stop global warming, but we can learn to live with it if we all just agree to help each other, locally and globally as it happens.
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