Save the tears and hand wringing – the UN Climate Talks at Copenhagen were always going to result in a half filled cup for climate change. The leaders of major powers, like Angela Merkle of Germany, signaled well before they’d jump into bed with the damage that a 2 degree increase in temperature would bring – in the name of economic reality. The real question was, in amongst all the diplomatic squabbling would the leaders of the world be able to agree on even this.
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.
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