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Fighting Extinction<\/a><\/h3>\n
“This is a true challenge. If the story is told as one of avarice, private gain and exceptionalism, the human race will go extinct.”<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n
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At the G7 last week, the leading industrial nations agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century. While that seem to many, ourselves included, as whistling past the graveyard, the mainstream press and many climate organizations are hailing the diplomatic triumph of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in bringing fossil foot-draggers Australia, Japan and Canada to a “Jesus, the climate!” moment.<\/p>\n

On the final day of G7 talks in their Bavarian castle, and before rushing off to the secretive\u00a0Bilderberg Group<\/a>\u00a0meeting, Merkel said the leaders had committed themselves to the need to \u201cdecarbonize the global economy in the course of this century.\u201d They also\u00a0agreed on a global target<\/a>\u00a0for limiting the rise in average global temperatures to a maximum of 2\u00b0C over pre-industrial levels, oblivious of the contradiction in those two positions.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, at the St. Petersberg Climate Dialogue, Chancellor Merkel called upon the overdeveloped countries to draft a roadmap of how to meet the $100 billion bribe Hillary Clinton offered underdeveloping countries to acquiesce to\u00a0President Obama’s stalling strategy in Copenhagen<\/a>in 2009. For five years now, Obama has declined to present such a plan, and not having one has undermined trust in both the UN process and the United States. At home, Obama\u2019s popularity ratings are now below those of George W. Bush in his final year. The President\u2019s legacy is likely to be that his name becomes synonymous with loss of trust. Merkel\u2019s is likely to be associated with loss of ambition.<\/p>\n

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Fighting Extinction “This is a true challenge. If the story is told as one of avarice, private gain and exceptionalism, the human race will go extinct.” At the G7 last week, the leading industrial nations agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century. While […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[1890,6393,113,6410,287,328,4349,369,386],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-angela-merkel","tag-bilderberg","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-decarbonization","tag-extinction","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-g7","tag-global-warming","tag-greenhouse-gases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","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=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9154,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}