Comments on: At 5AM, the United States dramatically waters down mitigation commitments for developed countries

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:39:48 +0000

Some day soon, we will find adequate ways to directly acknowledge the global challenges of our times by helping us “connect the dots” between human overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities on one hand and climate destabilization, natural resource dissipation and and environmental degradation on the other.

It seems to me that any “truth” about Earth’s ecology and climate science needs to be coupled with the best available science about human population dynamics and the human overpopulation of our planetary home.

Threats to human wellbeing and environmental health cannot be reasonably addressed and sensibly overcome until the root causes of the threats are acknowledged, validated by science, and widely shared in the human community, I suppose.

By: Peter Wood

Peter Wood — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:30:45 +0000

Thanks Robert, the link should be fixed now. I think that is part of the US position, but the US is also questioning developed countries having comparable targets or comparable legal form.

By: Robert Merkel

Robert Merkel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:18:51 +0000

Hi Peter, the link to the text seems to be pointing to the wrong document, I’m afraid.

I gather the gist of the US position is that they’ll promise whatever targets they deem nationally appropriate, rather than accepting one based on an overall “developed country target” Is that it?