{"id":14777,"date":"2015-11-25T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14777"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:27:21","slug":"its-too-late-to-save-the-climate-but-not-too-late-to-save-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14777","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Too Late to \u201cSave\u201d the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aglehmer.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/23\/its-too-late-to-save-the-climate-but-not-too-late-to-save-ourselves\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Too Late to \u201cSave\u201d the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save\u00a0Ourselves<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-639 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/aglehmer.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/paris_vista.jpg?w=244&amp;h=160\" alt=\"Paris_Vista\" width=\"244\" height=\"160\" \/>Yet another United Nations climate confab is about to commence, this time in Paris, France, where the tragic backdrop of terrorism, war, and a growing immigration crisis now grips the country. It\u2019s fitting that global warming talks should happen here, considering\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2015\/03\/150302-syria-war-climate-change-drought\/\">the role that climate-induced drought in Syria has played in worsening the wave of the violence and desperate migration<\/a>\u00a0that\u2019s spread throughout the region. Perhaps the gravity of the moment will weigh more heavily on UN delegates as they ponder a world where extreme weather, rising seas, and punishing droughts become the norm, leading to ever more conflict and misery.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we\u2019re unlikely to see a plan emerge from the Paris talks that truly stems the tide of rising carbon pollution, much less any binding agreement to ensure that meaningful climate protection goals are met. Those who\u2019ve pinned their hopes on a global accord that ramps down carbon levels are singing from the same songbook as they always have, year after year, from Rio in 1992 to Kyoto in 1997 to Copenhagen in 2009. Time and time again the refrain is always: \u201cIt will be different this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Environmental commentator Brian Tokar has outlined each of these progressive failures in his painfully incisive piece,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/11\/11\/paris-climate-conference-designed-fail\"><em>Is the Paris Climate Conference Designed to Fail?<\/em><\/a>\u00a0With excruciating detail, Tokar provides a behind-the-scenes look into why these global processes have perpetually missed the mark, concluding that \u201cprogress toward a meaningful climate agreement has continued to be stifled by big-power politics and diplomatic gridlock.\u201d That appears unlikely to change anytime soon, certainly not in the 20-30 year timeframe that climate activists proclaim is critical to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2<span class=\"st\">\u00b0<\/span>C above pre-industrial levels to stave off massive climate disruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Too Late to \u201cSave\u201d the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save\u00a0Ourselves Yet another United Nations climate confab is about to commence, this time in Paris, France, where the tragic backdrop of terrorism, war, and a growing immigration crisis now grips the country. It\u2019s fitting that global warming talks should happen here, considering\u00a0the role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,5288,2232,141,10759,1004,9056,637,822,826],"class_list":["post-14777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-activists","tag-climate-agreement","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-disruption","tag-co2","tag-paris-climate-talks","tag-politics","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14778,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777\/revisions\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}