Finally! the REAL news from Paris (COP21)
Mikhail Lysenkomann
12/6/2015, 1:28 pm
Comrades, as you know the KKKoch Brothers-infested "news" organizations of the USSA will never tell us what is actually happening in the world.
Fortunately, today I ran across a true People's news site that tells the Truth™, i.e. the Politically Korrekt Truth. Here, Comrades, is what is actually happening at the Paris
Global WarminskClimate Change conference:
World Socialist Website: Paris climate talks accomplish nothing
I regret to inform you that it's mostly bad news. The Capitalists are pretty much getting their way.
The United Nations climate change summit commenced this past Monday with 150 heads of state and tens of thousands of representatives from national governments, businesses and the NGO industry converging on Paris. Despite its supposedly historic significance, the 21st Conference of Parties, or COP 21,
promises little more than the previous 20 failed annual conferences.
Regardless of whether a final agreement is reached, the most ambitious scenario demonstrates once again the inability to
address climate change in any meaningful way under capitalism.
The centerpiece of negotiations in Paris consists of formalizing voluntary commitments to limit carbon pollution by individual countries made over the past several months.
Yet even if every pledge is fully enacted, with all national sources honestly accounted for, global emissions would remain on a trajectory to increase global temperatures relative to pre-industrial levels by an average of 2.7C by century’s end. During the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen, national governments resolved to remain below the 2 degree threshold, beyond which
scientists caution catastrophic impacts are possible.
The agreement under discussion in Paris, however,
would not legally require any country to actually achieve their targets. Instead, the most that is
acceptable to the Obama administration and other major world leaders is a procedural obligation to pursue nonbinding goals. As economic or political conditions change, governments are free to revise or renege upon these commitments.
Nevertheless, politicians and pundits are playing up the summit as a potential turning point for climate change. “Never have the stakes on an international meeting been so high,” remarked French President Francois Holland in the opening plenary. German Chancellor Angela Merkel added, “
Our very future as humankind hinges on this. ... Billions of people are pinning their hopes on what we achieve here in Paris.”
Notwithstanding the rhetoric, there is no denying that
the expected agreement falls woefully short, even in its ambition, of what is
scientifically necessary to protect humanity from the worst consequences of a warming planet. Justifications that such is the limit of what is “technically feasible” or “politically practical” only
serve as an indictment of the economic and political setup.
The industrial capacity exists to transition to entirely renewable sources of energy within a matter of a few decades or less, as a recent
study by Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson concluded for the United States. However, the level of planning and coordination on an international basis needed to implement such a transition comes into immediate conflict with the division of the world into rival nation-states and private ownership of the world’s productive resources.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/12/05/clim-d05.html
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