Kyoto fail?

04Dec09

Re: previous post about the Kyoto Protocol.

Staunch environmentalist James Hansen speaks scathingly about the Climate Change talks in Copenhagen saying they must fail because they do not go far enough. The article goes onto argue that Hansen says it would be better to begin from scratch than to go down the disastrous path of the Kyoto Protocol.

What is more dangerous: being “half-assed” or “beginning again” and risking the collapse on the precarious foundations upon which these climate talks are based (an already near-impossible political game of diplomacy and self-interest)? We must agree on one thing: global warming must have a global solution. Something tells me that if governments were given the choice between ‘all’ or ‘nothing’, we’re headed towards the latter! Pragmatic politics leaves little room for the future.