Paris Climate Talks: Civilization Stumbles Into Last Chance Saloon, Asks For 2C Shooter
The inhabitants of overheating Earth are starting to realize that they only have one last chance to stop the rising heat from their planet from overwhelming life on Earth as they know it.
So they are staggering into their last chance saloon in Bonn this week and again in Paris in December to see if it's at all possible to come to a global agreement which after over 20 years of contentious negotiations might just possibly be coming together.
When they finally do arrive they find a table of card sharks representing the largest oil and gas companies on the planet already set up and offering what seems to be a sleight of hand: A suggestion that they consider instituting a global price on carbon.
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Amazingly, there is some momentum going into these talks because since the last seemingly unproductive talks there has been activity among the member countries to turn their nonbinding commitments into laws so that at this time three-quarters of the world's annual emissions of greenhouse gases are now regulated by national targets. And the card sharks? It's hard to know what to think, but it's true, major fossil fuels companies have sent a letter to Bonn leaders asking that world leaders place a 'price on carbon'.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/02/1389872/-Overheating-Earth-staggers-into-last-chance-saloon
