child-like ignorance

Recently, as you may or may not have noticed, the world has somewhat belatedly turned their attentions to climate change. In what is turning out to be the biggest slap in the face yet to life-long environmentalists the climate-change agenda is finally making a belated appearence in the agenda of the evryday person, not only that but governments worldwide are taking precautionary measures to combat its own guilty concience. In addition, one can only presume that to many members of the public this passing fascination with a growing political agenda will slowly but surely fade away into its inevitible obscurity surpassed by the likes of Jordan's new perfume. I could at this point slam the very nature of consumerism and an increasingly disinterested and disengaed public but that would be too easy. Instead my increasingly perturbed mind is becoming increasingly frustrated at the news of seemingly 'ingnorant as fuck' national governments.

One might understand the nature of less-developed nations with an incling for hyper industrialisation to undervalue the very nature of climate change in their quest for economic stability. You might also say that even with China and to a lesser extent India's fragile commitment to human right's you might let them off for having a some really smokey power stations or for 'accidentally' killing dolphins to the verge of extinction. They are, wrongly or rightly, going through the same motions that us as developed nations did 150 years ago, allbeit on a much grander scale. So how do you defend the child-like antics of five of the most developed and powerful nations fighting over the future of one of earths last great wildernesses?

The arctic has suffered more than most as a result of climate change and ironically it is the continuing melting of the icecpaps in this area which has now given the opportunity to Denmark, Canada, Norway, the U.S? (Alaskans be fearful) and distressingly Russia to exploit this area for its potentially endless resources of oil and gas. In fact, a US Geological Survey estimates that a quarter of the world's undiscovered energy resources lies in Arctic areas. For me this is obscenely frustrating to a point where its alsmost upsetting.

Nations such as these shouldn't be drawn into another oil rush and drawn into territorial disputes but be putting there resources, intelligence and more importantly time together to draw up plans for the future of renewable energy, immediately. This not only stinks of aggresive imperialism but shows the rest of the world just what we as developed nations think of the climate change agenda