COP15 | TIME TO GET REAL | Street Theatre Artist Interview

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Daily interviews on location at COP15.
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As the Coral Triangle Group calls for 50% emissions reductions by 2015, Bolivia calls for 49% and the Small Island States for a minimum of 45% - both by 2020 all based on 1990 baselines check out the commitments that are now being broadly announced. All designed around different baselines in order to confuse the public. I give you 5 countries to start - India, China, US, Canada & the EU.

Copenhagen will formalize a great global suicide pact. We are cutting our own throats so that the banks and fossil fuel corporations can drain the last drop of blood out of humanity and our living Earth. We are witnessing the ultimate unimaginable evil - the predatory free (of ethics) market economy that is starving more than half the world alive today and future generations to death.

Targets are useless if we don't have a real way to meet them. One of the only measures that can save humanity now (in our current monetary system) is a global pollution tax / a straight up carbon tax which a critical tax which is being kept off of the agenda. No trading no selling no profiting just taxing carbon to death (literally).

Cutting carbon intensity was George Bushs proposal for tackling climate change. The minority Harper government followed. In Canada, industry and government alike have championed carbon intensity targets instead of placing absolute caps on emissions to mitigate the climate change impact of extracting oil from tar sands. This is simply a greenwash. Carbon intensity targets merely distract from the reality that tar sands should be shut down. Because they are the dirtiest and most destructive energy source on the planet, carbon intensity targets are meaningless in the face of plans to triple production between now and 2020. If Canada was serious about climate change, it would leave the tar sands in the ground and invest in true renewables. Carbon intensity targets are like CCS Carbon Capture Storage a greenwash for the public that looks like action but really is to continue business as usual. Increased economic growth and corporate output ensure that any reductions will be subsumed by expanding operations. We all know that nature doesnt care about emissions intensities. The absolute concentration of greenhouse gases is what will determine the severity of the climate crisis. Once we pass irreversible tipping points there is no going back.

Stern is now the first public leader to state that agriculture worldwide will collapse this century unless drastic action is taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions. While damages to agriculture are not even recognized as a danger of global climate change in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC, 2007), reasons for concern, it is clearly the top threat to humanitys survival. See recent agriculture report that we are now currently looking at 6382% cut in US crop yields for temperature alone.

Our political leaders are pretending that we can find a balance between the short-term economic interests of the big polluters and maintaining a safe climate that is capable of sustaining life. As former Government adviser on climate change Ross Garnaut said, the failure of this generation to act will haunt humanity until the end of time. Just as business as usual will destroy our future, so will politics as usual. In the present system global economic growth is directly linked to emissions and yet this suicidal model continues to be promoted growth at all costs.


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