New Statesman Leader on Copenhagen: World leaders need to become green heroes too

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:58 PM EST

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Gideon Polya

We are running out of time. In a comment on this article published by the News Statesman I wrote in part:

"Cowardly, anti-science, corporate lobbyist-informed politicians are betraying the planet. Bottom up action (sanctions, boycotts, climate accountability) is the only way to save the Humanity from a worsening climate genocide that is predicted, from the estimates of Dr James Lovelock FRS, to kill about 10 billion people this century."

I teach at a good Australian university and get feedback from fellow scientists about the worsening climate emergency that is overwhelmingly extremely pessimistic - for a recent summation see "Man-made Global Warming. Is it too late to stop climate catastrophe?": Man-made Global Warming. Is it too late to stop climate catastrophe? .

However while there is life there is hope - decent people must act to help save the Planet by (a) informing everyone they can about the worsening Climate Emergency (e.g. for carefully documented articles on the climate emergency for the public benefit see "Yarra Valley Climate Action Group": Yarra Valley Climate Action Group ) and (b) taking individual or collective action by Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs, Reparations Demands and Prosecutions against people, products, corporations and countries involved in the worsening Global Warming, Climate Injustice and Climate Genocide.

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