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What will the G8 do on Climate Change?

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Written by: Andrew Smith
09/07/2009 11:39

With the G8 meeting today discussing Climate Change, it is a critical day for the future of our world.

Being proposed are fossil fuel caps that will aim to limit the world's temperature rise to below 2 degrees centigrade.

This is being regarded as very ambitious by many around the table, but something they will "try" to do. On the othe hand are voices of many Climate experts who believe we are playing with fire allowing such levels of warming.

No targets have yet been agreed and the fear is that they won't.

As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday the new G8 targets were "not enough".

"This is politically and morally imperative and a historic responsibility... for the future of humanity," he said in a BBC interview.

See more at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8141715.stm

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Re: What will the G8 do on Climate Change?

I think this is too little too late!
It'll take a major climate catastrophe to shift goverment into action. Not so?

By John on 12/07/2009 08:14

Re: What will the G8 do on Climate Change?

Agreed John - us humans tend to "learn" only once we have seen the impact of our mistakes. Hit my head with a stick and it hurts.... oww... won't do it again. You can tell kids not to do something, but more often they'll do it anyway and learn for themselves.

The trouble with something as massively huge as climate change is that by the time we've changed the planet enough to see the impact of our change, it's impossibly late to take any remedial action.

It's like trying to steer a supertanker. If your heading for an iceberg, the sooner you steer away from it the easier it is. If you don't alter course until you're very close to it, at the very best to expect is a humongous lurch... or more likely a resounding crash.

The challenge is will we al behave like kids - or can we collectively be clever enough to take action in advance of the problem. Answers on a postcard please ! .....

By Andrew on 20/07/2009 15:17

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