Unlikely until Obama and the leaders of the countries with carbon emission clout, including India, China and Brazil found a way to at least agree to the half-half filled cup of a 2 degree change, in the form of a 3 page document document promising $30 billion in emergency climate aid to poor nations in the next three years and a goal of eventually channeling $100 billion a year by 2020 to developing countries.

Of course it was a prime time for those politicians from Bolivia, Cuba, Sudan and Venezuela, whose leaders suffer from megolamania fever and chips on their shoulders for anything American, to snatch the moral high ground and give the departing Obama a good slug in the back of the head.

And the ultimate projection from Sudan’s Lumumba Stanislas Dia-ping of Sudan, chairing the Group of 77 and China bloc of 130 poor nations: “It is asking Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact in order to maintain the economic dependence of a few countries,” .

“It’s a solution based on values that funneled six million people in Europe into furnaces.” Not bad for a government who’s care for it’s citizen’s means that the word Darfur is now synonymous with genocide. And down right understandable given how livid they are that the International Criminal Court indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in March this year for crimes against humanity.

One of the most frightening things is that politicians get to play out all the shadows and undeveloped emotional parts of their psyches in a psycho-drama of global proportions. And then some poor sod – or in this case millions of sods – and that could be you and me – get to wear the fall out. Or the well intentioned climate change prevention efforts of the UN get shot down in the psycho-babble cross fire.

It’s as wise to abandon climate change to the psycho-drama of politics – as it would be to jump out of a plane without a parachute and hope that someone would catch us. But we can move ourselves on, shift our awareness, change our consciousness to realize that common spirit of being human that stretches across borders and sees through the games of mine and not yours, and that knows a heart connection with nature.

And then play it forward, pass it on to our children, friends – we become the change that we want to see. Then in working together with new tools of consciousness deep fundamental change of the world becomes possible – and along with it a 40% reduction in carbon emissions and a sub350planet.

Although not listed as an endangered rain forest, as Brazil puts the pressure on to stop rain forest deforestation, Amazon forest loggers could see neighbouring Guyana as an easy slash for cash target. President Jagdeo’s plan is to place his nation’s forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.

Norway bought into his scheme on Monday with $30 million for the small South American nation to run it’s “avoided deforestation” plan. If the program hits its mark, Guyana will receive an additional $250 million through 2015.

Guyana neighbours Brazil

Full story at Worldwatch

The comprehensive study found that 51% of global CO2 emissions (32,564 million tons per year) are directly attributable to livestock and their byproducts. Up to now the generally accepted figure was 18% (7,516 million metric tons per year of CO2 equivalents) given in the  United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 2006 report Livestock’s Long Shadow.

This means beef farmers and other livestock farmers plonk an aristocratic sized carbon footprint on the planet that endangers the future of life on the planet as we know it. Dealing with livestock CO2 emissions is the simplest, fast lane way to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations (relative to other GHG reduction measures). So, just as aristocracies have become relics of a bygone age, it’s worth a bet that beef barons and other livestock aristocrats of carbon emission will be largely consigned to another of history’s dust bins of poor adaption.

The simplest solution is for consumers is to eat less meat, because less demand for product means fewer livestock farmers and lower CO2 emissions. And because it’s that simple, it’s not about someone else, or a corporation, its about us…something to chew on.

There’s a couple of simple steps anyone can take to help bring about change:

• 1.  Start munching on a diet that contains more vegetarian or vegan meals – its likely to improve your health too!
• 2.  Tell others the news by making a vegpledge
• 3. Feast and make merry on some great vegetarian recipes at sites like allrecipes.com

PS: With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference coming up in December 8-17 another easy thing to do is to lend your weight to our petition to US President Obama and other world leaders to reduce green house gas emission by 40%. Don’t let them get away with anything less.

He promotes the development of clean energy technology as a way to create jobs and help the planet.

This week, at the rural South Western Florida site of 180 acres of brand new solar cells, enough to power some 3,000 homes President Barack Obama said:

Now it’s time to make the same kind of investment in the way our energy travels to build a clean energy superhighway that can take the renewable power generated in places like DeSoto and deliver it directly to the American people in the most affordable and efficient way possible.

It’s a debate between looking backwards and looking forward, between those who are ready to seize the future and those who are afraid of the future. And we know which side the United States of America has always come down on.

The administration is seeking backing for an energy bill in the Senate that would crack down on carbon pollution from traditional fossil fuels and support for taking a strong stance for global climate conference that will be held in Copenhagen in December.

The world hopes that President Obama can ward off the lobby groups that would seek to seek to turn America’s vision to the past, and that he can secure his vision of a sustainable future, not just in the hearts and minds of Americans, but also in the hearts and minds of the people of the world and their leaders.

Offer your support for President Obama’s vision for the future by signing our Petition to President Obama. If you are a young person please sign our Youth Petition to President Obama.