CLIMATE ALERT! Italy and Poland Must Stop Playing Politics with Global Climate's Future

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CLIMATE ALERT! Italy and Poland Must Stop Playing Politics
with Global Climate's Future

By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark,
http://www.climateark.org/
December 4, 2008

Their unwillingness at climate talks to bear the costs of
reducing carbon, and ending their addiction to coal, will
destroy the atmosphere, biosphere and all our futures

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Some 11,000 climate delegates are meeting in Poland's western
city of Poznan, seeking agreement upon new post-Kyoto climate
goals, to be finalized in Copenhagen by the end of next year.
Simultaneously, the European Union summit is attempting to
reach consensus upon the so-called '20-20-20' proposals, which
by 2020 seek a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gas (higher if
others agree), a 20 percent cut in energy consumed and 20
percent use of renewable energy. Sadly, Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk are
actively seeking to weaken these modest and realistic medium-
term goals, which can be built upon, on narrow economic self-
interests. Without a deal at the Brussels summit, the European
Union is unlikely to reach consensus prior to the Copenhagen
conference. Italy and Poland must be called upon to end their
parochial climate change obstructionism -- putting the
interests of global citizenry and an operable biosphere, above
continued cheap coal based electricity that is killing us all.