G8 world leaders get together, tap each other on the shoulder for doing so great, make superb announcements of intent, and then fail to deliver because the targets are then said to be “too ambitious”. Sound familiar?
I believe there is progress being made, yet I often feel like there is a mutual self-love club amongst these leaders who rarely openly challenge each other in a manner so as to force the other to come off their stools. Kyoto was supposed to deliver something, now the G8 says another. Is there one country in the world which has met its carbon reduction targets to date? If so, kudos to them. If not, it is indicative of either not enough effort or too ambitious plans, often verbalizes for political scores of the day.
Although I offer no solution to the self-proclaimed leadership issues, I believe that we are at least on the right track now, and this should accelerate should an american administration begin to take the environment a bit more seriously. Oil has its place….for now. The question is not whether or not it will be replaced by carbon neutral energy sources, but when it will be eradicated.
It begs the question…what will the middle eastern countries which depend on oil revenue do once their revenue source is cut off? hmmmm….
Sass