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Even though the Copenhagen conference regarding Climate Change, held in December 2009, did not end with a consensus, the fact that the follow-on meeting is to be in Mexico in a matter of months, rather than years, implies that we have an undeniable consensus that Climate Change is real, something that was not nearly universally accepted merely a decade ago.
The UN has for more than a decade taken the issue of Climate Change public around the world. Its forum remains at the highest levels. The signatory countries, more than 100, have signed the
resolutions and protocols of the several worldwide conferences held on the
subject and are on board in one way or another.
The roadblock that prevents true consensus ... question:
"Who is going to pay?" Those being pointed at are reeling, moving backward and away from the negotiating table. In reality there is no such thing as a non-polluting country; however, the process has emphasized the Developed Countries as the polluters and the massive finger pointing is in that direction.
Whichever side of the table you find yourself, there is no sense in continuing the argument about who is the polluter and who is the victim. It is a no-win argument and will end in lose, lose delays for every person, the lowest possible common denominator. Each person may become either the most vulnerable loser or most significant beneficiary.
We must make this choice about breaking from tradition in time to mitigate and even neutralize Climate Change, yes it can even be slowed to a stopping point. The solutions are within reach, but the lose, lose policy issues about responsibility remain in the forefront; we cannot see what is actually available to us immediately fore the confusion of who is at fault, a superflous point that obscurs the real solutions from being seen.
The Developed Countries will resist paying, regardless ...
... unless we realize:
Each of us, individually, is the product of our traditions and collectively we live our lifestyle, whatever it may be.
Each culture is worthy of both praise and fault to various degrees. In the case of fault, it lies with several generations before any of us were born. We, like all previous generations, follow the lead of our forefathers; but, our children must not be able to say the same to their children of our generation.
The buck stops here and we must be the instrument of immediate change, how?
Finger Pointing
- We must point fingers inwardly.
- Each world citizen (person) must take responsibility.
- The more than 240 countries around the world each have their own governments and citizens.
- Governments are already set up to make their respective constituents aware of public issues.
- The United Nations is already a massive bureaucracy skilled at putting public awareness materials together in virtually every language and disseminating the materials to its member nations all the way to the grassroots, and, it has the existing budget to do so.
- Each member nation of the UN has a population and each member nation has membership dues responsibility.
- Climate Change and Green House Gas Emissions are a problem that directly touch every single person on earth, bar none.
- Carbon sequestration is likewise a solution imputed to every sole on this earth.
- The UN member countries are the stakeholders in mitigating the problem, cleaning it up and then reversing it.
- Mistakes of tradition must cease and progress begin.
The United Nations membership represents approximately 6.5 billion people. A simple one dollar assessment of each member nation for each one of its respective population is sufficient to get the Climate Change Mitigation and Reversal Project moving and moving swiftly. We do not need trillions and trillions of dollars, only billions of dollars and billions of people.
How do we do this because the problem is so immense?
This question raises another provocative and illustrative question, "How would we eat an elephant if we had to?" The answer, we know is: "One bite at a time." Now, if 6.5 billion people eat one bite at a time of an elephant we will quickly need megatons more of elephants and more elephants to ensure that each participant gets even one bite. (Environmentalists, please forgive the elephant example, it is only for illustrative purposes because elephants are so big. Maybe mammoths would have been better because they were even larger, but as we know they are already extinct, which is where we and the elephants are headed if we remain at the negotiation table much longer.)
Literature, screen and
student reading materials are publicizing Climate Change. Each country supports the immediate need to
get the world out of harm's way as quickly as possible. Let the UN administer the public awareness program using its existing systems.
There has never been one unifying event to reach billions
Until Now
As long as a person is
human, requires food, clothing, shelter and a world for all that to exist each day, he is going to be
interested in what might radically and uncontrollably change his family's mere
existence.
Wing-wing is one of the IVAFMS foresters who has not earned from planting trees for the past nine years but he understands Climate Change and Global Warming better than the average person enjoying life in the First World. He often asks about the First World wanting to know if the people there are growing trees like he is in order to slow Global Warming. The author has a tough time with that question.
If I lived along the coast, the way so many do, or some of my relatives did, or even my friends or business associates, I would be interested to know that all areas of land less
than one meter above sea level today will most likely be under water before
2050. Knowling that, I would make certain that anyone I knew living along the coast would quickly become informed. (This is the conservative figure. The more liberal opinion triples this estimate to more than 3 meters.)
IVAFMS Foundation owns this land with biodiversified agroforestry ongoing in the fertile land immediately below the small mountains. The future movement up the mountain side is being contemplated already in this remote part of the world, Third World. In today's electronic world even those living remotely can receive public awareness information and learn from it.
Already, there are
Climate Change Refugees
Climate Change Refugees already exist in parts of the Pacific and are relocated within NZ, this
fact is undeniable. The world leaders are aware, the leading corporations
are aware, the enlightened are aware, the general public is just beginning to become aware. Again, never before will one issue bring so many people together
for a common lifesaving purpose. Let's act now and make the general public aware and then positive things will happen.
This untouched photo was taken in a remote Third World "pollution-free" location where he air is "clean", "very clean" and no unusual weather event had recently ocurred. Ask the scientists what makes a beautiful sunset? They will say that it is the sun's rays relecting off of particles in the atmosphere. We need to act.
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