“The communique also said mid-term goals would be needed to hit the shared target for 2050, but that it would be up to individual countries to adopt them.”
“But environmental campaigners said the G8 agreement did not go far enough. “At this rate, by 2050 the world will be cooked and the G8 leaders will be long forgotten,” said Antonio Hill, spokesperson for Oxfam International.”
A “goal” two generations away, by which time all the principle actors will be dead, is a cheap way to paper over disagreements on the issues. As always, statements of grand rhetoric made at the end of such summits are meaningless. The end result is “Someday somebody somewhere should really do something about this”.
Leaving it up to the individual states with no enforcement means there is no deal to actually DO anything, as the activists plainly see.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Since there is absolutely no feasible means to reduce the current load in the atmosphere, cutting back new emissions to zero would still have no effect on the future environment except for leaving us all dead.
A “goal” two generations away, by which time all the principle actors will be dead, is a cheap way to paper over disagreements on the issues. As always, statements of grand rhetoric made at the end of such summits are meaningless. The end result is “Someday somebody somewhere should really do something about this”.
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Yup!
In 2050, I’ll be 99 years old. Frankly, this stupidity amounts to exactly that, and it does not distress me in the least.
The only thing that concerns me is knowing how many people are so stupid as to actually support anything along this line.