Global warming - perpetuating global inequities
Human caused warming of the earth will change the climate everywhere on the planet.
The latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) points out the current effects of climate change; no longer just projecting what will happen, but what is already happening in ever region of the planet. The latest report also predicts which regions will fare the worst and the ones that will “benefit” from climate change in the future.
I’m afraid the same power brokers that control our corporate-based government, the ones that brought us the 1.5 trillion dollar Iraq war that has killed 100’s of thousands of people, will see the “benefits” to climate change as a mandate to let the “free market” sort out the winners and losers. This will be their excuse to do nothing about climate change. After all, the regions that may see a short term “benefit” from climate change are the over-developed industrialized corporate-controled nations in the northern hemisphere. The losers are the developing regions in the tropical areas.
But isn’t this a market failure? The regions of the planet that are most responsible for climate change are the winners and the losers are the least responsible. If the market were sending correct signals, wouldn’t the destroyers of the climate suffer and make changes as a result of market feedback? Perhaps the “free market” doesn’t really work when it comes to planetary destruction. But who really cares . . . if you live in an industrial empire in the north. . .
The ones that have long been denying climate change, will now switch to, yes it’s happening, but look at the benefits!
April 7th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
You never really know how karma will manifest itself. I hate to sound like a broken record, but until humanity turns away from money, religion, and politics, and learns to live wisely without causing harm to other people and life-forms, these “plagues” will continue, unabated.
Welcome to “armageddon.”
Armageddon refers to the valley of great decision(s), hence “judgment(s).” It thereby symbolizes a low place in time and human circumstances leading to humbling (wise) decisions and great realizations (revelations, apocalypse).
Look at the widespread “plagues” that have been afflicting human civilization in recent years. Global climate change and its many ramifications are merely one aspect of this unfolding scenario.
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August 19th, 2007 at 8:34 am
global warming is becoming such a obvious problem that someone somewhere other than Al Gore needs to step up to help drive the bus!