Copenhagen- A joke?

What was that all about? After all the brouhaha, after all those editorial columns and all those ceaseless ranting on television, the Copenhagen summit can aptly be summarized as a joke- a very badly brewed wine which leaves a really bad taste, an ineffective Viagra which just doesn't give an erection…puhhh! The tall claims by politicians all over the world- especially from India and China- were just that-claims!

At the end of summit, the only thing which one would have noticed was that the summit instead of coming up with concrete solutions for reducing the greenhouse effect and somehow keeping the temperature rise below 2 degrees centigrade, only added to the climate and greenhouse woes. Oh, you can't just ignore the planes and jets which pumped more gases into the atmosphere which were used to carry the delegates to a useless summit which was speculated to bring about a huge change in the climate change equations. Mr. Obama and his Obamonomics really is something to be aware of. He is the one person whose contribution to this catastrophe cannot be overlooked. Toeing the line is what all he could conjure up. Not giving into the demands of the developing world (which of course Obama might still be referring to as "the Third World" in his study) and to the demands of the time, the USA, quite typical of itself, was always more interested in its own domestic problems rather than concerning itself with global problems- which it ought to considering the fact that it just loves to play Godfather in every damn thing that happens in the world.

So much for the "USA-Obama" bashing. European nations, which by far, have been the worst contributors to the climate change, were equally reluctant. Well, in the case of European nations the reluctance was understandable. They were never very enthusiastic about the whole affair. What was surprising, but, was the stance of Japan in the whole issue. With the leadership change in Japan, I had thought that the new leadership would be more than keen to display its might in a global platform and take on the challenge which USA seems to stall every time. But so much so for wishes.

India and China, and maybe Brazil, were the only countries which seemed to be enthusiastic to take on the menace at once. They were ready to decrease their carbon footprint subject to the condition that the already developed countries- which incidentally have been the major contributors- should do the same to an even greater magnitude. Now that is not an unrealistic demand- the per capita carbon footprint in India and China is still way lower than USA. Now some would account that to the large population of the two countries but that is baseless argument- energy consumption should be measured on a per-person basis and not country-wise.

The final outcome of the summit was that it was decided that the greenhouse effect needs to be mitigated by the joint efforts of all the countries by mitigation or alternative sources of energy and that the climate change is indeed a grave concern. Like we didn't know that! Seriously, does someone think we need a damn summit to realize the ill-effects the graveness of the situation? No doubt, the climate change experts and scientists say, in a whisper in public and screaming in private, the game is over.