Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/16/2009 2:45:38 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
NAIROBI (Reuters) - World leaders meeting in London in April should kick-start a "Green New Deal" to fight climate change and revive the crippled global economy on a sustainable basis, a major U.N. environment meeting was told on Monday.
High on the agenda for more than 100 environment ministers gathered in Kenya this week will be how to draw attention to "green" issues amid job losses and worldwide financial turmoil.
The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) says political efforts to curb pollution, protect forests and avert global warming have failed, and the world needs to learn from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression.
"We face the unprecedented reality that climate change may very well be the more important economic development than what happens on Wall Street or the financial markets, or in our industries," UNEP executive director Achim Steiner told the start of the February 16-20 meeting.
"The question truly is, can the environment afford to be put on the waiting line, or is it indeed part of the solution?"
A U.N. report presented on Monday at the conference in Nairobi called on G20 leaders to consider proposals for a "Green New Deal", and develop framework ideas towards securing a global climate change agreement at talks in Copenhagen in December.
U.N. climate scientists says rising greenhouse gas concentrations -- which are up by about a third since the Industrial Revolution -- are stoking warming likely to cause floods, droughts, heatwaves, rising seas and extinctions.
(Excerpt) Read more at af.reuters.com ...
The maggots and trolls in the U.N. are licking their chops over their “green” scam. This is going to make their “food for oil” scam look like chump change. Ka-ching!!!$$$!!!$$$
UN: Screw you.
Can you say Global Carbon Tax , children?
Yes, I knew you could.
This is a joke. you can’t revive (in the sense of growing or increasing the global economy) by going “green.” If they are talking about increasing the per capita wealth, then they are talking about genocide: Reducing the absolute numbers of mouths to feed and taking from those who have now and giving it to those who don’t. See my tagline.
The U.S. should tell them to vacate their buillding and seek other premises elsewhere...
They should revoke their own membership in that gang of thieves - it is shameful to belong to it any longer and we can’t afford to be sending on their six annual junkets every year.
Get them out - let another nation look after the weasels.
The U.S. should tell them to vacate their buillding and seek other premises elsewhere...
They should revoke their own membership in that gang of thieves - it is shameful to belong to it any longer and we can’t afford to be sending on their six annual junkets every year.
Get them out - let another nation look after the weasels.
Now why would they target their allies?
The US has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on environmental cleanup and pollution controls. It is by far the cleanest nation on earth. And we get zero credit domestically or internationally for what we have done.
The current “green” craze is just pap compared to the hard work that has already been done by serious-minded engineers. Buying hemp diapers, using a little bit of recycled paper with soy ink, and driving a hybrid is less than a spit in the ocean compared to our control of SO2 and NOx emissions from power plants, refineries and petrochemical plants over the past 40 years. Yet, the non-technical populace thinks buying a bamboo floor for their new kitchen makes them “green.”
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