Saturday, December 15, 2007

In Bali, the USA folded

Thanks in great part to the representative of Papua New Guinea, it seems.
Thank you so very much, I do not know your name but i saw and heard you speak. It lifted my heart.

So, now. An agreement without teeth, but consensus. A start towards the follow-up of Kyoto. Hopefully, in the end a treaty with teeth. One with hard targets, one that demands compliance. One that might save us from ourselves, or at least minimize the consequences for our children and grandchildren.

Generally, I have very little hope that we will turn things around in time. On really bleak days I believe we have already overshot our mark and think this world will end up uninhabitable, at least for most of the species living on it now.

This result on Bali gives me a little more hope. Who knows, with people like that young man, we might end up smarter than greedy bacteria multiplying on agar till they poison themselves to death.

Who knows...

Today is a good day for the world.




Added: Today, I do have a name: Kevin Conrad, director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations which supports the Forests Now Declaration. Thank you, Kevin.

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