subscribeUN Climate Change Conference, Bali, part 2
2 and 445 and "25 to 40" to 2020
2 degree Celsius, 445 parts per million of carbon dioxide, and 25 to 40% reduction on global warming later, will these two gas related formulas save us?
190 nations
involved in generating transportation, industry, private sector and agricultural gases which warmed so far the atmosphere 0.7 degree Celsius up, agreed now to not to exceed warming to maximum of 2 degree Celsius till 2020 (a new study says that daily 20.000 people are dying on cancer, this means 7,6 Millions this year, of that 4,7 millions in the underdeveloped countries, research Global Cancer Facts & Figures by US cancer society) see Global Cancer Facts and Figures
Local context
Dutch colonies Dutch East Indies till Indonesian independence in 1945, exploited for over 300 years with forced labour and forced delivery, enforced by lashes, torture, beheading or hanging. General Van Heutz and Van Dalen murdered inhabitants of countless villages in Aceh. Did the Dutch ever apologies and paid back?
Anti climate change
Bjorn Lomborg, danish professor on statistics, read cool it: the sceptical environmentalist guide to global warming, says if you spend $180 billion on global warming, annually, as Kyoto prescribes, you postpone global warning by 5 years.
Business going green
Basic question is, business was for so much centuries the driver of all misery, the background of wars have been mostly economical reasons, to colonise and capture resources, was blessed by the church and was serving as well for building local castles and palaces. (HNBC's motto, worlds local bank), so why should they change now? The method is the same, some one is always cheated in a deal. So if underdeveloped countries asking for technology transfer related to cleaner all and everything, reducing all and everything, will the west deal with it differently than selling weapons or cars?
The European conquerers (The English East India Company)
The big difference to the European conquerers is that they operated on local scale, UK tried hard to act as global player, but failed in loosing America.
Just when America hit the stage and brought in the global scale, as this is was America added to the world wide culture, it is "size". "the sun never sets on the British Empire"
Wikipedia: By 1921, the British Empire had a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population. It covered about 36.6 million qkm , about a quarter of Earth's total land area [via Wikipedia].
The US industry is operating on global scales, yes by now the Euros also and the rest too. But who comes first dominates the scenario, no one else achieved global brands, Coca Cola, Marlborough, just to name a few, so why they should change because they will make bigger profits from going green?
Europe's climate action network, Matthias Duwe.
