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The recent days of the Copenhagen summit have shown up the vast mistrust and deviant behavior of it's participants. Socio-economic differences between, let's say, North America and, say, Africa will always exist, and there should be no deception about that changing any time soon. The powers that be in tribal, rural Africa have no desire to see a strong, independent citizenry, perhaps freely armed as we are in the US, (and thus always ready to suppress a tyrannical government), and will therefore never allow proper, managed educational, environmental and workforce changes.
Meantime, the vast global corporate power centered traditionally in America, but now spreading to China and Japan, will not allow changes to their ultra-productive bottom lines, because that would alter the compensation to the select few (and it really is only a few, BTW) at the top of that fiscal pyramid.
Those massive salaries and bonuses? Only the tip of the iceberg. Corporate-supplied luxury townhomes, apartments in vacation locations, vehicles, travel on private aircraft, wine, women & song: all part of the package that these types benefit from.
The working folks, who must toil in the mines, or tear their fingers apart filching for raw diamonds in the mud? To heck with them.
So, there will be, effectively, no changes wrought in Copenhagen. Just worthless rhetoric fed by such notable illusionaries as Al Gore, and more accolades for Obama, who has yet to actually accomplish anything, anywhere. But who people desperately (and wrongly..) assume is a "reset button" to compensate for imagined and real environmental infractions during the Bush years. The pipe dreams of the socialistic youth hordes, for enforced global conviction to environmental change?
No way, sorry.
And the Rush Limbaugh led anti-environmentalists who deny that 6.5 billion people, in crowded, environmental hell-hole hovels like Mexico City or Bejing, can possibly have any effect on the limited resources or environment of this size- and resource-limited planet? What are they smoking?
That turns out to be simple greed: a Republican Party member truck driver who tunes in Rush for his daily dose of stupidity does not want to see his fast food, cheap cars and fuel, consumerist lifestyle altered in any way, especially by young, egghead socialists who might just care about the planet and it's non-human inhabitants.
Truly hopeless. However, in the end, it will reach a critical mass sort of situation, and perhaps then, things might be set straight. But it will not be pleasant, I assure you.
All precisely the reasons why the whole game is destined to end badly.
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