Were not understanding something here... if everyone globally reduced personal
carbon emissions by 50% by 2050 we are still in the *#@^+, If we delay till
2049... well that is unthinkable. Offsetting the same amount of carbon wont do
it. Population growth is problematic, what the use of reducing energy, when we
have more people creating the same problem.
General preparedness, what against? Tornadoes, Sea level, climate refugees....
We need to make at least 90% reductions and that's on current population
growth. IPCC report omitted to count in loss of sinks including forest fires
etc.. Ice melt has been conservative, ocean sequestration largely ignored..
Which part of 'general preparedness' do you want to pay for?
Want to try an insurance company? They are running scared now.. non-insurable
costs of climate change is growing at 7times GDP, millions have already died as
a consequence of climate events that look like climate change...
And we still have no common way of measuring energy between different sources.
We dont have an auditable carbon measure (or procedure) which makes planning,
trading and transaction efficiencies possible. The only value in carbon at this
moment is in its PR. "But its a start" is not a good goal state.
Doing something that looks a lot like nothing is as it were, the very foot
shooting your referring to.
Re: foot prints... if we don't understand the need for neonate politics in the
climate solutions mix, [and have that required conversation] I despair. 'To
many people' seems to be a bridge to far for some.
We need to respond and confront this issue in ways that reach way beyond where
we are at now. Since Rio, we have accomplished something, but that something
needs to be a lot more than an increase in the general air of awareness. In
terms of the required solution, that awareness uptake is about the best that
can be said of real progress towards <2 degree increase this millenia. Kyoto,
by various estimates, certainly as it stands today (and ends in 2012) MIGHT
save about .2 degrees. [Dont forget, we still have kiwi farmers who think this
is all a crock. ]
Cheers n Beers.,