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12/12/2008: "The world is not going to be cutting greenhouse gases anytime soon. If ever"

People - surprise, surprise - demand to be warm at the cheapest prices. Developing countries like China and India have ignored it completely, with their emission rising at 6% to 8% a year. China now emits more greenhouse gases than even the United States.

Carbon dioxide emissions, which were increasing about 1% a year in the 1990s, are increasing about 3% percent a year in this decade. Leaders all across the world, including Barack Obama, continue to look straight into the camera and proclaim that they are going to solve the global warming crisis - by 2020, or 2050, or 2100 or … sometime soon.

The world desperately needs to get serious, including President-elect Obama, Europe's leaders and every UN bureaucrat who dined handsomely in the evenings in Poznan. The truth is, the world is not going to be cutting greenhouse gases anytime soon. If ever.

[ Justifiably skeptical. Politicians just keep on making promises they never keep. The planet is in deep peril with this farcical democracy. As long as making money and feeding the economy is paramount there is no prospect of a reduction in greenhouse gases. We need nationalists to take power. People who care about their country and their population are most likely to do what it takes to preserve nature and consider what world is being left for future generations. ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/12/environment-climate-change-poznan