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Historic event or a fraud? Critical thoughts on the Paris Climate Accord : Comments

By Saral Sarkar, published 11/1/2016

It is simply taken for granted that a deus ex machina, namely technological development, would enable humankind to solve the problem of global warming without causing any pain to anybody.

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Bernie,
No doubt some plateauing off may take place but there is already gross population growth, despite the increasing death tally from many causes, in places such as Syria, Egypt, the Middle East generally, Most of Africa and Asia, not to mention our own out of control growth rates.
The human plague is on the move and mass migration will become the future norm. This will lead to further overpopulation and environmental pressures which does not bode well.
Never forget it is a healthy Environment that keeps us alive.
Destroy that and we destroy ourselves.
Posted by ateday, Monday, 11 January 2016 4:24:05 PM
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Saral,
A great paper, but comments about the narrowness of the agreed text from COP21 is acceptable. It must be seen as just part of the huge task to move to a sustaiable world.

That larger task seems to be addressed well at the UN's sustainability projects. See:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=2116&menu=35

where 17 goals are well presented.

One of these goals was the subject of COP21 - Climate Change.

So, Climate Change is but part of the overall sustainability problem. It was no fraud to not deal with the other 16 goals - many of which must be met to enable meeting COP 21 Climate Change objectives.

See this document
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/211617%20Goals%2017%20Partnerships.pdf

that clearly places COP 21 / Goal 13 in an appropriate context.

Reading all 17 goals reveals how truly massive and complex corrective action will be.

One minor but important correction to your paper. Some recent tenders have shown new renewable energy power complexes are cheaper to build than new coal powered electricity generation complexes.
Posted by Tony153, Monday, 11 January 2016 8:56:45 PM
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