An interesting perspective from Paul Gilding: Why Copenhagen will fail and why it doesn’t matter
You see we’re not ready to fix climate change, not yet. We have not accepted the scale of the problem. Nor have we established the political conditions necessary to fix the problem when we do. However Copenhagen does signify the shift between two eras and if you watch carefully you can see the new world emerging. That is the interesting thing happening at Copenhagen.
Here’s my top 4 trends we’re seeing in Copenhagen that tell us where we’ll go when we are ready [more detail given for each one in the article]
No one is in charge.
Angry Islanders.
The science won, the sceptics lost.
A dot com boom on steroids with military support.