Nature cares little for what it is we procrastinate about

Those at the Lima climate talks seem oblivious that nature cares little for what it is they procrastinate about.

It simple knows that the constituents of earth’s atmosphere are out of balance and only an immediate and world community-wide response will set about restoring the necessary equilibrium.

If we (the nations of the world) fail to make significant decisions at Lima in the lead up to Paris next year, untold trouble awaits.

The mindset that brought on the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, took the Western powers into a decade long conflict in the Middle East, and has allowed privately corporations to become among the richest and most powerful entities in the world is alive among those at Lima.

Until we are prepared to relinquish and abandon the greed driven individualism that proliferates in the developed world, conversations such as those at Lima will always stall and simply produce nothing more than aspirational and so unenforceable targets.

Considering that, it was interesting to note The Guardian story that pointed to “scant progress”.

The story headed: “Scant Progress As UN Climate Talks Enter Final Stretch” said U.N. global warming talks seemed set to spill over into the weekend.