Lima Climate Talks were, as always, in Population Growth Denial
The Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities: Origins and Scope For the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 Johannesburg, 26 August, was intended to provide a basis for international cooperation and has apparently been an issue of contention at the 2014 Climate Talks in Lima 12 years later. (See explanatory document here: Legal brief on 'Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities'.)
During the 12 days of talks World Population grew by approximately 2.7 million people. I wonder whether those 2.7 million will create any carbon emissions during their lifetimes? In the 12 years since the Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities was drafted, World Population has grown by approximately 860 million people. The Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities makes no mention of population growth, yet this is the one issue that has the potential to bridge the divide between extreme population growth in the developing world and extreme emissions in the developed world.
The talks concluded after 12 days on 12 December 2014.
It is quite clear that:
- The developing world has a responsibility for urgently ending its destructive contribution to global population growth
- The developed world has a responsibility for urgently ending its own population growth, supporting stabilisation of developing world populations and transitioning to zero net carbon emissions; and also has a responsibility for ending its ridiculous reliance on population growth to drive what it calls "Economic Growth"
- The entire world must accept that economic growth fuelled by population growth is an absurd and self destructive strategy that will end either by deliberate planning or by catastrophe, and that this population crisis must be addressed without further delay.
There is a common cause here and by denying the existence of the Population Growth Problem the Climate Talks in Lima, as always, have made a mockery of reality and stand as testimony to an unofficial and globally orchestrated policy of environmental destruction and human rights abuse in the name of Economic Growth.
A, if not the, primary force driving Economic Growth for over 100 years has been Population Growth. The more People, the more Emissions, the more Money. Why is this issue omitted from "Climate Talks"?
The answer seems relatively simple. No Government is prepared to recognise that its beloved Economic Growth is primarily driven by Population Growth, which in turn drives Human Rights Abuse, Emission Growth and all other forms of Global Environmental Destruction.
Think of the human race as a hierarchy of haves and have nots. Most of global net population growth is happening amongst the world's poor. If 2.7 million extra souls are added every 12 days the majority are have nots. It is the 2.7 million added to the "bottom end" every 12 days that are the greatest human rights concern. They are also the greatest Emissions Management concern because there is no justification in denying them access to the advantages of fossil fuel.
I'll say it again:
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved" Charles Kettering.
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