Copenhagen - Here is Obama

When I sit to scribble this post, Obama must have set his foot on the soils of Copenhagen, where he is off to freeze the climate pact. The Gods only know whether the deal will be done or the world will again remain on the razor's edge with a 'No Deal' writ large on the faces of the climate summit participants. When the world is counting whether the egg hatches or not, the two primers Obama and Wen Jiabao must have cracked a few friendly jokes between them before going for each others necks (Ahem! anything for the deal). READ MORE

Obama had set out for Copenhagen for hammering the last nail on the ultimate international climate pact on Thursday, 17th December 2009 with a lot of hopes riding on him. Why? Why has the US-Sino talks become such a 'not-to-be-missed' affair? Why is there so much hullabaloo regarding the deal? Well, the reason is these two world forces are the highest emitters of the green house gases. The global warming owes much to the carbon emissions produced by these two economies. Where are all the environmentalists going gung-ho over India's dilly-dallying attitude over climate and energy changes and their ill-effects?


But this meet is not about hitting on each other and playing the blame game. It is about taking immediate action. If the much-hyped pact is mutually agreed upon and signed by these global powers, then the real war against pollution begins. If it fails, the world will sink more and more beneath soot and deplete more of the Ozone shield. The current climatic scenario has taken the world by shock and has actually made the world leaders sit up to take notice. No or patchy rains or frequent deluge, Tsunamis and hurricanes, melting Antarctic and increasing ocean levels - the climatic anomalies have already begun. We have already sat enough on the watch tower and debated over the how's and why's. It's time we jump start or else our progeny will not exist to write our epitaphs.


Though the US and China have sided up to lock the deal this time, the prospect was bleak some time back. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, had accused Beijing of being closed up and opaque on the issue of climate changes and the role that it has to adopt. Showing their unquestionable pro-environment nature, they have finally arrived to find a solution for the damage already done. Even Obama is resolute in making it happen this time. Call it a 'wake-up call' or the shame factor triggered by the clown show pulled off by the climate activists at Copenhagen, the leaders have put their best foot forward. Good for the earth we live in.


But the environmentalists have overlooked the best part of all these hoopla. This summit alone is going to produce as much emission as the entire city has ever produced. What an irony!  


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 Time Magazine April 28 2008 Special Environment Issue How To Win The War on Global Warming