At last Change is happening!!
Nice Logo!! Tangible evidence of significant CHANGE!!
Dear reader it is seldom that ‘we’, as jaded disconsolate editors are enthused by the zeitgeist of our era. But we are pleased to report we can barely contain ourselves with the strength, trajectory and sheer brilliance on offer at the 2015 Paris Climate Change talks.
At last there seems to be something palpable, something tangible in the air, and we can see some real action.
Yes indeed it’s easy to be cynical, but this conference represents a real opportunity for the world to unite and get their act together for the benefit of humanity.
Ben van Beurden. CEO Shell. On Climate: ‘Let the market decide, it’s worked extremely well with vocational training in Australia I’m led to believe’.
And seizing upon this unique, epoch making initiative, we sent out very own correspondent, Petra, (Bertram) Fossil, to report on the initial plenary sessions and get a taste for ‘this most defining moment’ to end the cycle of carbon emissions that are steadily and most assuredly destroying this planet.
And we know now that in spite of recent utterances from the head of Shell, (Ben Van Buerden); ‘The reality of demand growth is such that fossil fuel will be needed for decades to come’ or the more excoriating reality bite from professor Steffen Boem, (University of Essex), “Nobody who sits at the negotiation table in Paris has the mandate nor inclination to ask fundamental systemic questions of the logic of the dominant economic system and the way we consume the resources of this planet’,there is HOPE!
As a riposte to all that negativity, some joyous, renewable, sunlight.
From the Climate change conference: Petra Betrtram Fossil, (Co2 Correspondent) 1789 rue de lapin, Picardy.
‘Yes indeed there is a distinct feeling of anticipation and high hopes for a real and lasting solution to this existential threat. Never before has so much of the worlds intellectual, diplomatic and physical resources been galvanised to resolve this burning issue. And though the anticipated crowds have been discouraged from lining the streets, and the presentation in the Champs d Elysees cancelled due to the looming terrorist threat, the talk on the street, and evidence of frenzied activity by the American, English and other Europeans indicates far reaching resolutions to these vexed problems. As the English Prime Minister so emphatically pronounced, “Upon this world conference, rests the future of civilization itself”. And the American President, earnestly shaking almost every hand among the delegates, secretaries, and trade delegations assured the gathering of world leaders, that “Once again, America stands to uphold principle and integrity as a leader in world affairs’. The Russians, though under-represented, were unable to commit to a firm position whilst the Japanese Government demonstrated a keenness to participate fully in the new global order. China and India, both emergent superpowers recognised that ‘they have much to gain’ in a successful outcome. And amongst the smaller countries, some as members of the Commonwealth, were heartened by a visit from HRH the Prince of Wales who presented them with a declaration of his commitment to ensure that this conference would set a new benchmark for “Nice-ness”.
Delegate from one of the smaller countries at the 2015 Climate Conference.
Unfortunately, there is a problem.
Leaders of the “nice, decent, good-fellow club’ ensuring ” once and for all” that this conference achieves lasting global change to create a better new world, (trans in french),’plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose’
One of the smaller nations, steadfastly believes; ‘its sacrifice is immeasurably more significant than the other principal powers’. It also ‘wont budge’, and will move ‘not an inch” in negotiations. Shocked by the self righteous, confected diatribe, their Prime Minister insists that his nation has “more to lose” by, “caving in’ to left leaning scientists, pseudo intellectuals, and global fashion. Twice the general secretary threatened to kick the malcontent out, but the P.M was unrepentant. A special clause has been inserted with recognises the special rights of the Australian people, and their Prime Minister William Morris Hughes to adopt their own resolution to the vexed issues. Though admonished by the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Lloyd George, and the visionary Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, Mr. Hughes would not desist in making derisory and vituperative outbursts directed at the Japanese and Chinese contingent. Indeed his behaviour has been so objectionable that even Mr. Clemenceau of the French delegation was heard to utter, “zese people are barbarians’, and in response to French designs on the former colonies of German East Africa, “ Zis leetle mous is roaring again”.
Happy though to say, the order of things has been restored, the Middle East has been re-carved, sliced and re-diced, and an assurance made that with the promulgation of the expected League of Nations, that self-interest, national and corporate bloody mindedness will be a thing of the past.
At last, an iron clad assurance of ‘peace in our time’!