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by Robert
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hen the 2008 Global
Financial Crisis threatened stability of the world’s economy action was aplenty.
Public funds were raided repeatedly with anonymity,
rewarding those who caused the trouble; trouble that sent the world spinning toward
a disruption that would slow growth and actually bring with it a demonstrable
benefit.
World consumption slowed when corporate capitalism stumbled,
illustrating a measurable drop in the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.
The obvious connection between consumption and emissions
passed without comment, certainly in the corporate-owned media, and so the
world’s worsening emissions continued their upward climb almost without notice –
the chance to illustrate conclusively the cause and outcome was lost.
The present United Nations climate conference in Paris is
another real chance to address this quickly evolving crisis that will not only
destabilise the world’s economy, but within it has the potential to threaten
the broader wellbeing of humanity.
Such a dilemma, you would imagine, would be sufficient to
see countries of the world stand as one and within that act in concert to
instigate processes to ensure the stabilization and lowering of carbon dioxide
emissions in a way which would allow for the continuation of a contented life
for all.
Beyond that, I would imagine the world leaders would stay in
Paris until they reached an agreement through which people could continue to
live a happy, contented and fulfilled life in a way that might be different
from what exists, but which would be sustainable in every sense and not in the
way that the term “sustainability” has been purloined by the corporate world.
Yes, some 150 world leaders did gather in Paris to pay what appeared
to be little more the lip-service to the seriousness of climate change, but
now, after just three days and as RenewEconomy
correspondent, Giles Parkinson reports, the leaders have left Paris and with
them, two-thirds of the media.
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