This planet does not have a reset button

Copenhagen failed dismally. No hard targets. Nothing binding, be it CO2 emissions or financial. It's weaker than Kyoto was! I didn't expect them to come up with what is needed, but I did not expect this much of a poor result either.

There's a generation waking up to the reality of climate change and what's (not) been done about it over the past 17+ years by our leaders. They understand increasingly well how special interests and our current political system have made this almost inevitable. I believe that they are angry and getting angrier. It does not help, that they are sidelined with great force whenever they try to take part in the political process; and by the way I think the police response in Copenhagen to protesters was overwhelming, disgracefully indiscriminate and at times inexcusably violent. I never expected this from a country such as Denmark. Almost none of that was reported, it is as if there was no protest at all, in Copenhagen. Just cutesy symbols here and there.

This was a last ditch opportunity, utterly squandered. I won't be surprised if this will birth a kind of environmental & political guerrilla movement. Soon, I believe the time for protest marches and hunger strikes and logo's and coloured flags will come to an end. I really do. Throughout history, if people cannot get what they need through legitimate channels, they choose other, more violent methods.

No, it would not surprise me at all if this fiasco gives birth to a new kind of terrorism (and, how handy that our governments have all these anti-terrorism legislation already in place, and how handy that the people of these times are so nonchalant about data privacy...)


Monbiot sums it up perfectly:

This is the chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous summit.

He is right: governments could move at lightning speed to save the banks, but our biosphere, that takes 17+ years and still no solution in sight.

We are moving backwards. Count me in with the angry.