Protesters Are in Agreement as Well: Pact Is Too Weak
PARIS — Several thousand climate activists from across Europe and many from farther afield gathered peacefully near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturday to protest the
outcome of the COP 21 climate conference about 12 miles away.
The demonstration was an official exception to a
ban on public gatherings across France after the
Paris terrorist attacks in November.
Even as the delegates at the official conference center
reached a landmark accord and applauded their achievement, the crowds on the street
made clear their belief that it would take much more than the measures in the deal to halt global
climate change.
“
We don’t like the COP 21,” said Joseph Purugganan, who came from the Philippines to participate in the demonstration with other activists from a coalition called Focus on the Global South.
“The message here is that the real solution will come from the people,” he said. “
After 20 years of COPs, look at where we are.”
He added that slowing the increase in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, the goal set in the agreement,
was not enough. In the Philippines, there have been record
typhoons, and fishermen in Southeast Asia are being driven from their homes by
rising oceans, he said.
Stuart Basden, 33, who came from Toronto, sounded even more disappointed. “
We knew that it would be a failure,” he said. “They just decided in which decade we will become
extinct.”
Many French activists were there, as well, including Corine Lefort, an elementary school principal who came from Marseille with her husband.
“This is to put pressure on those officials responsible that things need to change
more quickly,” she said. “It’s urgent.
This is a real crime against humanity.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/w..._th_20151213&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=50329110
What the scientists and politicians have wrought by their propaganda has come back to bite them. Every storm, every flood, every drought, every cold day, every hot day, anything weather related is now a fact of climate change caused by human emissions of CO2. No matter how low the human CO2 emissions decrease, no matter what efforts are expended in the name of global warming, it won't be enough as long as there are weather events of any kind. The people have been convinced that it is all human CO2 caused.
COP21 was clearly a failure, a fake and a fraud.
