Tod Brilliant, Post Carbon Institute. December 29, 2009.
While Copenhagen resulted in zero meaningful progress on global emissions reductions, there was one source of inspiration I found there that keeps me going.
There is nothing in this deal that would persuade an energy utility that the era of dirty coal is over. And the implications for humanity of that simple fact are profound.
Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.
At UN climate talks Monday, he warned that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice could deprive deprive more than a billion people of access to clean water.
Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360. December 5, 2009.
The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.
For much of this fall, most public statements by both US and UN officials have been pointedly aimed at lowering expectations. How did we get to this point?
