BEYOND COPENHAGEN - Now what?

Are current corporate-dominated international institutions inadequate to the task of meeting the multiple planetary survival challenges they themselves have helped create?
As headlines proclaim that COP15 was a 'catastrophe,' that a global climate deal is 'all but impossible in 2010,' and progressive NGOs,' "The forces trying to tackle climate change are in disarray, wandering in small groups around the battlefield like a beaten army," according to one diplomat, Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org), talks about the factors contributing to the stalemate in the Copenhagen climate summit, the other 'game ending' challenges confronting the current economic system, and the bottom-up steps necessary to move to a post-carbon economy. Interviewed by EON's James Heddle.

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[THEOZZYFUL]

@2bsirius yes it is shocking

the idea that most people would rather go extict than give up their precious money

they probably feel deepdown that they are not worthy of saving themselves

understandable because they are not letting us save ourselves either

if i had that attitude i wouldn't consider myself worthy of saving either

[dahlenu]

I do not see this ending well for mankind. We will run out of oil, then turn to coal, then run out of coal, and finally find ourselves in a extremely serious global warming situation.

[irkone]

On a recent Radio Ecoshock interview, cloud scientist Tim Garrett is interviewed about his peer-reviewed paper which argues "that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day." In the same show it is argued that facilitating the collapse of civilization is fundamentally a good thing. Removing that which destroys ecosystems is positive.

[FactualSolutions]

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[2bsirius]

I cannot believe that this video has gotten so little attention!

The point that we have synergistic problems which will require synergistic solutions seems like the only viable way to look at this.