Thirty years after he founded Band Aid people in poorer countries are still dying because they are poor Bob Geldof told the attendees of the One Young World summit which opened in Dublin yesterday. ..Referring to the pace of climate change he said we were "at a critical moment" when it comes to climate change adding that we are "destroying any possibility of life" not just for this generation but also the next.
Addressing the 1,300 attendees representing 190 countries at the event which takes place in Dublin’s Convention Centre over the next few days Mr Geldof said "we must find a way through the terrible situation we have locked ourselves into and we must navigate an intellectual path...if you don’t do it there’s a problem".
Earlier Taoiseach Enda Kenny told delegates their generation could make a major difference while also touching on the issues which have faced Ireland in recent years and its more recent economic recovery. ..[What recovery ?]
Meanwhile former president Mary Robinson underlined the importance of sustainable development to combat climate change, an area which she said required "transformative leadership".
The three-day event, which co-founder David Jones yesterday described as "a platform to give brilliant young people a catalyst to drive change in the world" will see the attendees, who are aged between 18 and 30, present on and discuss a broad range of topics on major issues facing the world. ..
It is always worth referring back to the Club of Rome and their dire predictions:
"In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself."
http://www.archive.org/sream/TheFirstGlobalRevolution#page/n85/mode/2up
Regardless of their influence the Club of Rome got it wrong and there has been no global warming for the past 18 years despite rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So we do not talk about global warming any more; we use the ubiquitous term `climate change` to implicate humanity in an impending global disaster.
But this new term is rather weak. It is obvious that the climate is changing - it always has. If there was no climate change there would be no seasons and no carbon and hydrologic cycles and we would be living on a dead planet. Where do these people get their science from, the discredited UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ?
Undaunted, the globalists will keep pushing forward their ideas that humanity can only survive with sustainable development and smart technologies:
Speaking of Europe, "Rosales believes "member states are embarking on a re-visioning process" to fulfill their commitments to Agenda 21, as part of the Millennium Development Goals. What he fails to acknowledge, however, is that these ‘goals’, along with numerous other sustainability and natural capital initiatives, are steered by globalist corporations and financiers , such as Lockheed-Martin, Dow Chemical, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Bank of America and World Bank ...The path to a steady-state economy has been prepared for nearly 40 years, by pricing ecosystem services , and promoting the idea we should ‘go beyond GDP’ ."
Read more at http://www.activistpost.com/2013/06/agenda-21-steady-state-illusion.html#HW1FsGI5KZwJTXj5.99
Of course, oil is a finite resource but there is profit in promoting scarcity for the oil companies. There are 40 years of oil left, they say - there`s certain to be more - and this is using present day technologies which can and will be further developed, when required. So the window of opportunity is there to develop the alternative energy sources - some of them already exist - and more scientists and engineers in the world than there have ever been before. They just need to get to work on what matters. There is no need to claw back economies into stagnating steady states and no need to prevent third world countries from developing. It`s time to tell the `doom and gloom` merchants we`re tired of their message.
http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/themes/energy/energy-supply/fossil-energy/when-will-oil-run-out
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