10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2………………………TIME UP!
“It is not fiction it is science… the question… is no longer the nature of the challenge the question is our capacity to meet it….[but] our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now.” With these words, However it appears that what is now being discussed has been stripped of any targets. Because countries simply cannot agree, simply cannot find that middle ground and we may well be left with just a wish list. Two years ago they committed to making a new and binding agreement, now commentators suggest that the battle is on just to have some sort of paper agreement to take home. It seems unlikely that there can now be a legally-binding treaty complete with verifiable emission and temperature targets or even a deadline to agree such a thing. It seems that our species is just not us to this job any more than the dinosaurs were able to adapt to the global changes that ultimately wiped them out. More information: BBC News/BBC Blog
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