You're not alone: Europe also capitulates to Bush (on Climate Change)

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Friday May 25, 2007 · 4:52 AM PDT

2007/05/25 · 04:52

Just in case you were not depressed yet, here's another bit of news:

Merkel plays down G8 climate deal hopes

German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday played down expectations of a breakthrough on climate change at next month’s G8 summit of rich nations, admitting she "did not know" if a pact on greenhouse gas cuts would be reached.

Germany, host of the summit at the coastal resort of Heiligendamm, is locked in tough negotiations with the US, which is refusing to endorse Ms Merkel’s call for targets to reduce carbon emissions.

Sounds like a capitulation? Yep. And it is.

I'm not going to write here, again, how fundamental that issue is, probably just as much as Iraq, if not more, and how urgent it is becoming that we (i.e. everybody on the planet) actually do something about it (just go see this self-explanatory report by the WWF: Climate change: five years left to save the world). Waiting for another 2 years, at least, to do anything because trhis WH won't budge, should not be tolerated.

And yet it will be.

And they are preparing the ground for that:

Diplomats said Ms Merkel aimed to maintain pressure on the US to give ground, while also seeking to reduce post-summit criticism from environmentalists if targets were not agreed.

Yeah, because criticism from environmentalists (and other sane people) is perceived as easier to bear, deflect or ignore than the pigheadedness of that nasty Decider guy.

Well, here's the thing: it's up to us to change that.

We have to make it more painful for our representatives (whether they be your Dems or our European leaders) to spurn us than it is to face off Bush.

It's as simple as that.

Otherwise they'll keep on pretending that they are listening to us while making it clear that "realism" dictates that they don't. We have to change "realism" for them.

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