Post by troubledgoodangel on Dec 13, 2007 7:56:10 GMT -7
Global warming is coming home to roost, and understandably so. What is urgently lacking, are fresh ideas. In Bali, Indonesia, the U.S. seems unable to commit some dramatically constructive solution. Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, the top EU environment official appears to have held a disguised olive branch, but our negotiating team clearly didn't notice. So I step in, and offer the following: given the urgency to do "something" to cut on greenhouse effect emissions worldwide, let this issue be tied to strategic changes in world economy! The issue is tied to world economy in many ways anyhow, want we or not! What I mean is that the U.S. should accept the Bali proposal as is, on condition that the EU and all wealthier nation participants make economic concessions in other areas, on questions like the cost of oil, weak dollar, paring the dollar with euro, global market access, helping poor nations, and yes, an exclusive international consortium for uranium enrichment, to end the atomic terrorist threat once and for all! In other words, what we need right now, is a Global Economic Marshall Realignment, as opposed to merely a Global Warming Marshall Plan! The benefits of such dual arrangement would be globally immense! The poor nations' economies would rebound. The United States would emerge from economic stagnation. The price of oil would be greatly reduced by a stable world currency. And even China would stabilize its out of control economic growth. As a matter of fact, this idea would not only avert the global warming calamity, but would positively refashion the entire economic scenario of the world for decades to come!
