Copenhagen is Not the End

March 16, 2010 by Infowars Ireland

Nathan Allonby shows how the climate change agenda has not been derailed by the meltdown in Copenhagen

Nathan Allonby
Published in Namaste Magazine

Posted 5 February, 2010

Many people mistakenly think the Copenhagen climate summit failed and that now it’s all over. In fact, the Copenhagen conference was only one step in a process that continues unabated – 2010 is planned to bring major new measures.

Do not assume that the crisis over climate science has derailed this – the process is too large and has too much bureaucratic momentum to stop. The next steps are already planned, years ahead.

Anyone who sees the photograph of 10,000 delegates and 5,000 observers assembled at the Copenhagen conference will realise immediately how deeply established this process has become.

Given the intense, global media coverage, the demonstrations, protests and the so-called debate, it is surprising how few people really understand the UN programme or what the proposals are, still less what they may actually represent in practice.

This alone should make us pause for thought – idealistic young demonstrators, campaigning for something they do not properly understand.

Most of those protestors would be horrified to realise that they may have succeeded in diverting attention from the real environmental problems of the planet, including a gigantic exercise in corporate looting, which will rob perhaps a billion people of their homes, forcing them into slums and sweatshops. Most of all, they would be horrified to find they may have been campaigning for the end of the democratic mechanisms which protest seeks to influence and by which the public can bring change. Read more…