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"After I mentioned in passing that Sir Jonathon Porritt was scheduled to be one
of my guests for my climate change podcast series, a close friend responded,
“How much better the world would have been had more of us heeded the warnings
he sounded three or four decades ago” . I completely agree. Lost years can
never be restored. Time once lost is gone forever. You might as well ask the
great Nile River as it rushes onward to the Mediterranean Sea to bring back its
rolling floods. It cannot.
The whole Cop28 summit reeked of hypocrisy. In fact, only two of the 28 COP
summits — the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement — are considered
moderate successes. The other 26 summits have been termed failures. The success
rate is not remarkable under these circumstances, which raises the question of
whether it is prudent to try something new now. Put another way, what can we do
to make up for these lost decades my friend spoke of, in the metaphor of the
great River Nile?
The challenge of climate change that lies ahead of us all is reminiscent of
Sisyphus, a character from Greek mythology. In the Greek legend, Sisyphus is
destined to roll a boulder up a mountain, but each time he reaches the summit
as it were, the boulder rolls back down to the foot of the mountain. This is
what all the last 28 climate summits look like to a reasonable bystander.
Surely there must be a better way. How about we resolve to break down the
‘Climate Crisis’ into manageable portions with realistic and achievable goals
instead of us playing Sisyphus?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
