WWF Pushing For "Energy Marshall Plan" At G8 Summit - Reuters

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I wish them luck on moving this agenda. WWF is going to need it.

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The report called for "a serious global 'Climate and Energy Security Plan' similar in dimension to the Marshall Plan", referring to the U.S-led financial aid package for West European countries devastated by World War Two.

The new plan should aim at dramatically increasing energy efficiency to ensure global emissions of CO2 and other climate pollutants peak and decline in the next 10 to 15 years, the Swiss-based WWF said.

The G8 leaders -- from Russia, the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan -- are due to discuss the future of global energy supplies when they meet in St Petersburg.

"They cannot push their responsibility from one G8 summit to the next -- they have to come up with answers and decisions now," WWF's Morgan said. Environmentalists fear that US opposition to linking global warming to human activity will keep the problem of climate change well down the agenda.

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37186/story.htm

[phantom power]

1. The USA is a non-starter until at least 2009.

If the rest of the world wants to begin making progress before 2009, it will have to be in spite of the US, not in cooperation with it. And that is under the possibly optimistic assumption that yet another reactionary Republican isn't elected again in 2008.

[cezebrgr]

2. THE MEANING OF LIFE

The impossibilities of transcendental metaphysics aren’t
necessarily applicable to all spiritual realities.  The
introduction of a single all knowing being on the top of the
totem pole is simply a tool to help children grasp the
concept.  The world consists of all types of eternal
substances.  Memories are the most coveted.  Many cultures
developed some form of ancestor worship.  The realization that
we are simply articulated mud is demeaning.  People need to
feel important.  They need to feel good inside.  This is
impossible for many groups the collective learned helplessness
of their environment  lets them see elevation as a means of
escape.   

The meaning of life is the perfectibility of humanity and it’s
environment.  There are some deserts that are shrinking and
some should become greener. Before glaciations the climate
change will bring more rainfall to areas like the Sahara and
Tigris. They should experience a shift in monsoonal rainfall
in a few decades as ocean currents change due to decreased
salinity. The emergence of man was a direct result of the
desertification due to the dry shift of the Ice Age. We are
just on the wet side. 

As the Ice Age approached and the arboreal and savanna regions
diminished and the hunter foragers collected around the rivers
and improved their ability to communicate, and formed great
civilizations. 

If you check the global rainfall over most regions the decadal
rainfall has increased. It has to because fresh water ocean
evaporates more easily than salt. The process even at these
exponential rates may not be noticeable for generations. The
South Atlantic hurricane that was recorded this year was the
first in recorded history clearly a sign of change, not a dry
one though. Not yet.

That is not to say that agricultural mismanagement isn’t
causing top soil erosion, the planet can sustain a much larger
population than the current levels. Your point of view that
that the increase in population is not aesthetically appealing
is valid., but unavoidable. Government corruption is the cause
for most highly developed blots on the landscape. Finding ways
to live with it is unacceptable. A case could be built for the
rezoning of the land of the along the River of Life.

I MEAN IRAQ WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF INVADING A THIRD WORLD
COUNTRY AND STEALING THEIR OIL IF YOU DON’T GIVE THEM
SOMETHING FOR IT.  LOOK EVEN AS FRACTIONALIZED AS THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS YOU WOULD THINK THAT WHEN EVERY BODY THAT
GOES TO IRAQ COMES BACK AND SAYS THAT THE PLACE STINKS PEOPLE
WOULD THINK THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.  THE CRADLE OF
CIVILIZATION STINKS, HOW COULD THAT BE, THIS CAN’T BE TRUE. 
Send in green peace find out what is going on.  BUT THERE IS A
WAR THERE. SOMEONE MIGHT GET HURT. wtf even if there wasn’t a
civil war there people would be dying the place stinks.  It is
polluted.  SO WHAT IT IS POLLUTED.  So what, so what? What is
wrong with you this is the democratic party.  We don’t like
pollution!!! POLLUTION, THERE IS A SHOOTING WAR THERE.  Huh, 
greenpeace would blow up a ship and kill every body in it for
nuking a piece of whale flesh for dinner.  What does that
mean, war.  This is the Democratic Party.  We fought and paid
for some of the biggest wars in the world.  BUT IT’S IRAQ WHO
CARES.  

[hatrack]

3. Uh . . . yeah . . . OK nt

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