Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Copenhagen Scam Failed - Global Climate Change

Well, the Copenhagen Summit that ended at the end of last week came to a conclusion with no binding agreements. The developing nations were very upset. Individual nations and groups of nations walked out at one time or another to signal their displeasure with the process. Not enough money was being offered to developing nations. China and India want to be treated as developing nations even though their sheer size and industrialized state should put them into a totally different category. Developed nations of the west were frustrated as well. It isn't like any of the nations that had previously signed on to the Kyoto treaty had been successful in meeting their goals. At the heart of the failure of this conference was the fact that some of the facts of global warming and climate change are being called into question by Russian scientists as well as others from the west because of the exposure of the email controversy that broke in the news in recent months. Many people from developing nations have accused President Obama with failure over being unable to deliver on this conference. But he had no real chance of delivering because there was no real global agreement to begin with. When looking at the details of what countries were hoping to accomplish it becomes clear that developing nations had hoped to be promised and given large amounts of numbers in the area of 100 billion dollars a year to "help them move into a green, alternative energy future." But this is more about global redistribution of wealth than it is about climate change. The devloping nations have convinced themselves that the developed world owes them reparations or large amounts of money to move into the future. They also want this money with no or little strings attached for actual accountability. This is absolute rubbish. They are owed nothing. If developed nations choose to give them money to move into the future there should be measurable ways of holding them accountable. Obviously the United Nations is a hotbed for corruption and if given the opportunity to spread this kind of money around they would have enough layers of bureaurocracy that friends and family can be greatly enriched at the developed world's expense. Having served in the Army for 29+ years and been deployed to Haiti I can tell you firsthand what happens in poor countries when richer nations of the world send money there. It is definitely not a good thing for the poor people of the nation. The rich get richer and the poor are impoverished.
So what is the answer? We must separate these issues and not be guilted either unnecessarily or hurriedly into giving money in the name of climate change to those who would enrich themselves and do nothing to improve any aspect of global climate change. The United Nations would like to enrich themsleves and their position in a move towards a one world government solution. The progressive movement that has drank deeply from the climate change, global warming kool-aid must be challenged and dialogued with about what is really happening in climate change. As believers we need to insist and hold our leaders accountable to do the right thing as good stewards of the natural resources of our planet. We ourselves need to be good stewards of creation.
So the Copenhagen Convention was a failure in many people's eyes. I see it as a success because it revealed, more openly, the true nature of what is going on by nations of the world. We are not of one mind on this issue. This was a scam that got exposed. We do need to do something to help the poor nations of the world, but putting too much money at one time only enriches tyrants and their buddies (see Haiti). Believers need to pray for discernment and for wisdom on this issue and then have the courage to ask hard questions of the Al Gore's of this world. There was an agenda for Copenhagen but it wasn't saving the planet from climate change or global warming. It was about redistributing wealth. Christians need to be as wise as serpents and as gentle as doves in being God's true stewards of creation.

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