Metal Reviews

Saw that one coming lol

"Our natural tendencies"? I don't know any reasons why we have to think that's our natural disposition.

I just think the fact the pattern of destructive overconsumption has repeated itself over and over throughout history is a pretty good indication. I mean .. I can't even think of another explanation. Unless there is a clear and present danger, we are very loathe to change. It's the boiled frog syndrome.

And before you go all Al Gore on me (although he understands that fear is necessary).. climate change is the perfect example of a destructive scenario which lacks a clear and present danger.

I don't recall the Canadian people voting on this issue. The people who actually have to drive to work in the winter and heat their homes.

Does it matter? Did I ever blame individual Canadians?

And if you're going to play the "country hardships", well, we live in the middle of the fucking alps.

But that is what it comes down to. That and whomever generates demand for our natural resources (i.e. Americans). Why would an unrealistic target be met if people continue to live life the same way they did the day before?



Russia is comparable in its energy needs and geography, but not Switzerland. We also produce oil and natural gas for the US market. Many of the higher per capita CO2 emitting countries (Canada was number 10 in 2006) are oil producing ones.

I mean .. where did that natural gas come from to heat your home? I am guessing Russia. Basically some other country sucked up the CO2 emissions to produce so you can consume it.

In a country without a direct democracy, it's not really the people's fault if decisions at an administrative level to ignore the carbon emission cuts pledge are made. Whatever, it's not a big deal here, but it is a problem if one country just sticks its middle finger at the whole schtick, based on the idea of reciprocal goodwill as it is.

All I'm going to say is .. you percieve it as a "middle finger" but it's just reality crashing yet another international party. At home the Kyoto targets were never taken seriously by anyone really. Most considered it a PR exercise by the reigning slightly-left-of-center party. They got voted out and the subsequent right-leaning gov't had no intention of adhering to something they never would have ratified in the first place.

And before you reach for that superiority complex .. CO2 emissions increased under both left-leaning and right-leaning governments.

Anyhow the two players that really matter are the US and China. This graph pretty much says it all. Neither ratified Kyoto. I wonder why.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... mark-lynas

Interesting.

I'm just being kinda anti-essentialist. I don't think you could ever garner enough of a change for those in the most needing of change if climate change was to occur so I'm still holding firmly onto changing the big picture.

So Limbaugh and his goons cast Copenhagen's failings as a success for the politburo of China. China was able to talk sense into those Europeans and Obama's European consciousness.