Politicians Won’t Go Green…
… it’s our job to slow climate change
As the global warming tipping point looms closer, The Nurse becomes increasingly pissed off with politians.
They’re procrastinating like people possessed. All over the planet.
On reflection she acknowledges that politicians will never be willing to sign up to strict environmental targets. Unless we make them.
Politics is all about popularity. Strict environmental policies require big cultural changes. Fundamental things that hit almost everyone where it hurts most. Not necessarily in the pocket. In the lifestyle.
We can’t rely on politicians to take a firm lead. Because consumer economies are fundamentally unsustainable, the biggest changes will hurt like fuck. They’ll change our lifestyles beyond recognition. How will we react? We’ll vote them out. Catch 22.
The Nurse suggests we lobby our politicians to pull their collective finger out and set high targets. Then tell us how we can meet them. Just stop fannying around.
She also suggests that ordinary people stop expecting to have their cake and eat it. Drastic circumstances need drastic action. Give your support to strict environmental targets. Vote them in. And take the consequences on the chin.
In the meantime The Nurse contributes by methodically insulating her cell with nose pickings. Every little helps.
David from Wedding Photographer Nottingham wrote,
Of course under feudalism, we could have had long-term decision making. That system wasn’t really doing it for us, on account of a lot of the kings, lords, barons etc. just being in it for themselves, so now we have democracy, so that our elected representatives … no that’s not working either is it? What a mess we are in.
Link | July 28th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
hersu wrote,
politician’s will concerns in something if it’s has a benefits to them. or if all peoples on earth dying…
Link | August 10th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Lorren Van Fossen from Kauai land wrote,
I agree with your thoughts & it’s a very important matter for all the people. Earth is our home and we should fight back against climate change, But sitting here and cursing Politicians isn’t right. We elect politicians and they are one of us, not some person out side from this world. So it’s up to every individuals to work for the world. It’s not really about politicians or group.
Link | September 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Herb Shallcross wrote,
Pollution is certainly undesirable, and it will become necessary for us to develop an energy economy that doesn’t depend on non-renewable resources. That said, I think it is criminal to perpetuate the man-made global warming hoax. It is not supported by the science, scientific “concensus” is another word for conspiracy, and shouting peole down is no way to get at the truth.
The Hadley institute at East Anglia had to destroy their data because it was fake. They were caught attempting to cover up their systematic “fudging”. NASA has been caught repeatedly doing the same thing. The U.N., which has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar on “Oil for Peace” and other boondoggles stands to gain an enormous amount of money and political power from promoting this con game.
The sea levels are rising. At the same rate they have been for three thousand years. Global temperature changes in much better correlation to the solar constant than to atmospheric CO2 levels. The computer models don’t take into account the most significant “greenhouse gas”, water vapor. The computer models also failed to predict the global cooling of the last decade. Al Gore’s lies aside, the polar ice caps cover more area than they did three years ago, and the polar bear population is up 500% in twenty years.
At what point do good intentions give way to the truth?
Link | December 29th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Herbert L. Shallcross III wrote,
To the extent that politicians have resisted nonsense like the Kyoto protocols, they exhibit more wisdom than you would expect from them. Write them and thank them for uncharacteristically doing something beneficial!
The globe has cooled during the last decade. The North polar ice cap is recovering rapidly. Polar bear population is up significantly.
Global warming isn’t going on at all, and madmade climate change has been debunked. The UN, and con men like AL Gore have profited by fooling well intentioned people into supporting measures that will impoverish them and take away their freedom.
Link | January 10th, 2010 at 6:12 am
travel for health wrote,
Politicians are only interested in money, no wonder that they won’t go green.
Link | February 10th, 2010 at 4:36 pm