I can’t help feeling that the same outcome to last years resolve to help the poor countries will also be repeated over the next 12 months on this year’s agreement on climate change.
Why? – For the same reason that the credibility of the G8 leaders ability to achieve and care is now coming under increasingly serious question.
Their traditional thinking is actually impeding our ability to create the change necessary for relieving poverty and reversing climate change – after all it is this thinking that is the cause of these problems in the first place - and is therefore by definition incapable of providing a solution.
Managing our resources by the discipline of “supply and demand” means there will always be poverty.
Our inability to recognise the need to manage this planet and its resources means increasing environmental imbalance.
A political will that continues to ignore the above two factors in favour of vested interests means a continuation of doomed G8 and other such “summits”
Unless and until we can review and change our traditional beliefs in the way we manage each other and our planet, all the pledges on earth will come to nothing.
Any guesses as to how long it will take for the latest undertakings to actually occur or have any effect, or not – no prizes but maybe we should start looking a little more for solutions outside the box!