Sustainability and Politics: "U.S., China Agree to Work on Climate Change"

Saturday, February 15, 2014

"U.S., China Agree to Work on Climate Change"

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1E05320140215?irpc=932

Well, "work" is not planning.

If "...The two sides "commit to devote significant effort and resources to secure concrete results" by the Sixth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue later this year, the statement added."

Then we need concrete results of lowering atmospheric CO2, not planning on it.
Not agreeing to plan for it.
We NEED to start LOWERING atmospheric CO2. Not
slowly curtailing emissions decades from now.
We should be turning off coal powered plants today.
These polluting behemoths must be retrofitted with the best scrubbers money can buy if they are ever let online again. And governments might need to help pay for that. And governments must lead and help subsidize a WWII-like effort of manufacturing rows and rows of wind turbines and solar fields, combined with private investment, and citizen micro-investment, until they are flying off of assembly lines and into power grids in every continent on the planet.

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.