Copenhagen and the UN's dismal performance will hopefully be the last serious attempt to use 20th century techniques to arrange our 21st century affairs.

Simon Zadek of Open Democracy has made the point that seeking consensus between 193 sovereign states through a zero-sum negotiation process was always going to be a fool’s errand. It failed because it handed exclusive rights to national governments, leaving 99% of the energy of business, civil society, cities, and the youth (just to same a few) as frustrated bystanders. It failed because it sought to secure a “one for all, and all for one” consensus, unworkable even in the relatively simple world of trade.

It failed, finally, because of its use of old style negotiation techniques.

The United Nations wa designed in a different era. As an effective decision making forum for global affairs, it is broken. It cannot be fixed by shifting or adding seats on the Security Council. We need to start again by designing a powerful global governing body that is adequately resourced, possibly by a trasactions tax, and mandated to deal expertly and equitably to promptly respond to all the major global issues requiring complex solutions based on scientific and ethical imperatives to takes us all towards a better future. A global climate change policy should be its first assignment.

What we should do is forget the war on terror, & declare war on the UN in general, & the IPCC in particular.

We should not stop, until the entire organisation, & the ultimate corruption it has spawned, is driven down into the dirt, so deep, neither it, or anything like it can ever rise again.

When finished with the UN, we should offer our help to those now labouring under the yoke of the EU, another total corruption, usefull to no one but the bureaucrats who inhabit it.

Then, with all thar experience, we should turn to Oz.