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G8 Meeting Releases Joint Statement on Global Warming
The results of this week's G8 meeting in Italy have been announced. The G8 set a goal to hold the temperature rise to 2 deg. Centigrade/3.6 deg. Fahrenheit above average temperatures in the year 1900. A more far-reaching proposal to slash production of greenhouse gases was not sucessful. They have agreed that global warming presents "a clear danger requiring an extraordinary global response" but at the same time still state the need to "respect the priority of economic and social development of developing countries". You can read the entire statement at Stop Global Warming.org.
Can we have our cake and eat it too? Without significantly lowering the carbon output and energy consumption of the developed world - just how exactly are we going to respect the priority of economic and social development of developing countries and still stop global warming? What steps do you think we need to take to prepare our leaders for the December Copenhagen Conference?
Do we have the leaders we need?
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