Climate Talks...It is Now Up to us!

 The Climate Talks in Warsaw are over. Two weeks of talking and no action.

  Have the world's governmental representatives gathered for this year's
  climate change negotiations forgotten that the world's citizens are demanding that they   

  act now?  Do we have a do nothing Corporatocracy where only corporate interests count?

 Here are some  comments (see below) that should be considered and do share them with others.
It is now up to all of us to act with what power we have-- consumer power--since we are consumers (when we shop)  who give our dollars to support those who are standing in the way or we can support those who are working on solutions. Think of where you will or will not spend your dollars.

‘Enough is enough’
These are the first words of the joint statement (full text here) from the various environmental groups and NGOs that yesterday decided to leave the National Stadium at 14:00 in protest. An unprecedented decision in the history of the COPs that has highlighted the deep distance between civil society and the policy-makers who have repeatedly failed to take decisive and effective decisions. source:  http://www.stakeholderforum.org/sf/outreach/index.php/reflections

 

NY Times Op-Ed Contributor   Climate Crisis: Who Will Act?  By KOFI ANNAN

Published: November 24, 2013

Geneva — The last-minute deal at the United Nations Climate Conference in Warsaw keeps hopes for a comprehensive successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto protocol alive. But let us be clear: Much more decisive action will be needed if we are to stand any chance at fending off the dangers of climate change.

We now have just one more shot, next year in Peru, to make more substantive progress toward a successor agreement before the crucial 2015 Paris conference. Even before then, it will be crucial for governments to put aside narrow national interests in order to ensure that the pledges made at the 2009 Copenhagen conference — to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to pre-industrial levels — are met.

The unprecedented walkouts at the Warsaw climate talks — first, by representatives of most developing countries on Wednesday, and then by green groups and N.G.O.’s on Thursday — reveal a growing level of frustration with what many perceive as a lack of political leadership at a time when it is needed most.

A version of this op-ed appears in print on November 25, 2013, in The International New York Times.

Read the rest at : http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/opinion/climate-crisis-who-will-act.html?_r=0

Now do call, and write (snail mail), email, and twitter your congressional representatives. Tell them that the Warsaw Climate Talks were a failure in that the actions proposed did not address accountable and proactive steps to adopt different technologies  to eliminate carbon emissions worldwide as a  climate solution.

How many Hurricane Sandys and Typhoon Haiyans and countless extreme weather events do we have to suffer through  before our governments wake up? There is no such as clean coal, safe nuclear energy or environmentally clean fracking.  There are indeed technological solutions including eliminating the incredible waste that can be adopted. It is time to agree  that  the negative  externalities of polluting technologies can no longer be ignored and we need to stop subsidizing dirty fossil fuels industries.

 

Warsaw Climate Change Conference - November 2013

 Press Release: http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/131123_pr_closing_cop19.pdf