The Bali butcher’s bill
We already know that LiveEarth and Bali have been extremely destructive to the planet. Now, the Bali butcher’s bill rises:
The air-conditioning system installed to keep more than 10,000 delegates cool used highly damaging refrigerant gases - as lethal to the atmosphere as 48,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, and nearly the equivalent of the emissions of all aircraft used to fly delegates to Indonesia.
Gaia is weeping, and so, in fact, is this guy:
He is known as the “hard man” of climate-change negotiation.
But after 12 exhausting days of trying to reach a worldwide agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it was suddenly all too much for Yvo de Boer.
As the 200-nation Bali conference wrangled over a minor procedural matter, the Dutch diplomat in charge of the talks burst into tears and had to be led away by colleagues.
It’s official. Global warming - or “climate change” as it’s called from November through April - causes nervous breakdowns.
If you view it all as a rationing of energy consumption and growth; any problems then, with international treaty norms, orderly economics because unrestrained economics can lead to chaos and even more Enrons? And will the sub-prime bubble bursting be the next Enron - we should have watched more carefully, where were Sarbannes and Oxley when we needed them again, let’s find their successors, and legislate so failure preceeded by irrational enthusiasm will never happen again?