So today is Blog Action day and the theme is climate change. On Blog Action day 8700 blogs are posting about the same topic – climate change. We write about climate change all the time, in fact, we spend so much time with our heads in climate change we practically dream about it.
We’ve been taking a look around the web today to see what people have to say on this day of climate-motivated blogging madness, and at this point the outlook is dim and the commentary scathing. It is far from certain that we will reach a suitable agreement at COP15. Politicians and leaders world over acknowledge the need to leave living, breathing planet for their children, but the joint forces of bureaucracy, corporate interest, and the short term electoral cycle may well convene to sweep this good intention underneath the economic couch.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has the following to say:
“I will go to the talks in December if it means we will get an agreement and I am urging other leaders to join me. But it must be the start of something not the end.”
“Like every parent, I want to leave a safe and secure world for my children. And I want to be able to look them in the eye because our generation stood up for their future.”
We will see you there Gordon – you had better rock up.
Mother Jones writes:
“We still have the power to shape their (our children’s) future. Just for perspective: The entire sum required to buy off Third World opposition to carbon caps is around what we spent to bail out Fannie, Freddie, and AIG. And hey, Europe’s on the hook for at least half. Our kids will measure us by how long we tarried. What will we tell them?”
and Holy Damn – check out Google!
The point
So what is my point you ask? Well, here at PSP, “your children” = us. So let me address you – this is, the leaders, the business men and women, the politicians.
In fifty years you will all be dead.
You have a reason to fail. You don’t want to be the guy who gets panned by Chevron for bringing in a carbon tax. We understand that. We also think you’re reckless, because your failure will impact on us. Thanks Mum.
In the coming years we will inherit the earth, and as we do so we will start to fix it. If you feel like being lazy, take heed – we will steal the earth from under your feat if you do not move fast enough for our liking. The more you dither, the faster we will act. We do not live in a place or a time that will insulate us from the results of our own failure. In Australia, in Japan, in America, Europe, China and England – we will feel failure lapping at our doors, burning our fields and gnawing in our bellies.
We are the next generation of life on this earth and we are motivated. Not motivated for a better lifestyle, for prosperity or peace, or for the ability to wear trousers, but motivated for the survival of millions of our fellows. If lovelock is right, we stand to save six billion people. We hope he is wrong, grumpy old bugger.
You will see us at Copenhagen. We will be watching you and negotiating with you, gathering in large numbers around the Bella center and collecting in conference rooms and media galleries. Take solace in the fact that if you fail at COP15, we will not.
Find out more on Blog Action Day, read on Mashable here, at the Whitehouse, CNN, the Huffington post, Galding, WWF, Dowling Street and Consequence.
