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Environment & Energy

joshcryer

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2. Rio+20 was the last big shot at anything. It's over.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 08:48 PM

Nov 2012

We're fucked.

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Musn't Rush Things! Brazil Urges Delay In Any Binding Climate Talks Until 2013 - SMH [View all] hatrack Nov 2012 OP

Kinda sucks but it could have been worse. n/t AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author XemaSab Nov 2012 #3

I don't get what you're trying to say here. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #5

Rio+20 was the last big shot at anything. It's over. joshcryer Nov 2012 #2

Oh, just stop, please. This isn't helping things. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #4

Could you imagine this guy on the deck of the titanic NoOneMan Nov 2012 #6

LOL......seriously, though, I got a better metaphor. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #7

That's a really shitty analogy XemaSab Nov 2012 #9

I wouldn't have called the NWS alarmist, though. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #12

'tis but a scratch! I could plug the hole with my pinky finger! joshcryer Nov 2012 #11

Handwringing? How about facts? joshcryer Nov 2012 #10

Yes, but this is actually the science. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #13

Oh, OK, so you have anything to say about the OP? joshcryer Nov 2012 #15

We never actually had a shot - not as far back as Kyoto. GliderGuider Nov 2012 #8

True enough. But since then Latin America shifted far to the left. joshcryer Nov 2012 #14

Why should some third world country XemaSab Nov 2012 #16

You do have a good point here, XemaSab. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #17

As Kevin Anderson says "Climate Change is an Annex 1 problem." GliderGuider Nov 2012 #18

Mexico and the UK are the only two countries with committed emissions goals. joshcryer Nov 2012 #19

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