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Copenhagen and population growth: the topic politicians won’t discuss
3 hours ago ago from optimum population trust news watch
According to the UN, population growth is a driving force behind emission increases yet it will not be on the agenda at any of the upcoming climate talks World population has doubled to more than 6 billion in the past 50 years. It’s expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. The population of the USA is projected to rise from 300 million to more than 400 million by 2050. But most of the population growth will be in poorer countries, ...
Related contentCopenhagen, Day Five: Negotiations Move Slowly Forward
4 hours ago ago from Climate Vine
The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting on the scene from Copenhagen during the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Blame Canada The mayor of Toronto, Canada, David Miller, accepted the top two Fossil of the Day awards from the International Climate Action Network on behalf of Canada. The climate organizations and Miller criticized Canada’s conservative government for its weak targets and obstructionist approach to the ...
Related contentMore on the Successful Societies Scale
7 hours ago ago from Archimedes' Hot Tub
This post, are we better off without religion? delves more deeply into Gregory Paul's Successful Societies Scale (and its shoddy presentation) than did mine . (Some of the comments are also interesting.) One thing that surprises me is that Paul ignores or brushes aside other potential correlates. While the U.S. is clearly more racially diverse than the other nations on his scale, with less than 80 percent of the U.S. being white, vs. ...
Related contentToday in Shakedown City: News from Copenhagen
1 day ago ago from I Luv SA
Some updates from the Climate Change summit. The UK's Mirror says Developing countries at the Copenhagen conference are demanding more money to fight climate change. Lumumba Di-Aping of Sudan, the head of the 135-nation bloc of developing countries, said the 10 billion dollars a year proposed to help poor nations change paled in comparison to the more than $1trillion already spent to rescue financial institutions. "If this is ...
Related contentBlake on Copenhagen
20 hours ago ago from Wordability
Le texte rêvé des pays émergents said Le Monde. The emergent countries in question, led by China, would like: to emit carbon in any quantity indefinitely (to eliminate poverty) to have developed nations (who have caused the problem) meet all the costs of climate-change damage and to bypass the World Bank to export freely without the importing nation imposing any carbon-related duties not to submit to any regime of international inspection ...
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Copenhagen Explained: A Game Of Double Jeopardy
5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
This Is A Special From Mother Jones, Written By David Corn. At the Copenhagen summit, there isn't a negotiating process to reach a climate pact. There are two. And that's a problem--perhaps big enough to pose a threat to the entire effort to reach an international deal. Climate diplomacy is a complicated business. Here's the backstory. In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, representatives from more than 150 nations --including ...
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