Monbiot: Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting Was Doomed, Fraudulent From the Start | Black Agenda Report

Monbiot: Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting Was Doomed, Fraudulent From the Start

Bill Quigley

29 Dec 2009

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by George Monbiot

Fossil fuels made two centuries of industrial civilization possible. But their continued use is now causing irreversible climate destabilization, threatening the death of tens or hundreds of millions. Since consuming only sixty percent of the already mapped and easily available deposits of coal, oil and gas around the world is an absolute gurantee of climate catastrophe, governments should have been sitting down at Copenhagen to determine which forty, fifty or sixty percent of those available reserves will be left in the ground, and to ban prospecting for more. All the rest, Monbiot points out, was hypocritical nonsense.

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