The Road from Copenhagen
Against The Current vol. 144
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2602
Date Written: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13585
The handwriting about the long-anticipated Copenhagen climate change conference has been on the wall for months, and its message is not promising for our human civilization or the thousands of species we may take down with us. By the time of that frantic final day of backroom arm-twisting, blackmail and president Obama's lead-balloon speech, it no longer really mattered whether the conference's failure would be openly admitted, or thinly disguised behind a “political framework statement” without serious mechanisms for implementation, measurement or enforcement.
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