How psychology can help the planet stay cool – environment – 19 August 2009 – New Scientist

How psychology can help the planet stay cool – environment – 19 August 2009 – New Scientist

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Latin American geopolitics: The dragon in the backyard | The Economist

Latin American geopolitics: The dragon in the backyard | The Economist

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James Lovelock recently.

G20

gostei do sabio comentario do Jeffrey Sachs: ” The sad — yet solvable — truth is that the G-20 process still confuses communiqué writing with real policy coordination. We need key officials of the major economies sitting side by side for weeks, even months, hashing out detailed scenarios and global policy options. Instead we get negotiators who focus mainly on the wording of quickly forgotten communiqués, while actual economic policies are set largely in inward-looking national processes. The G-20 is a huge improvement over the G8 in global representation. Roughly 4 billion people, mainly of middle and high-income countries, are represented in the G-20 process (at least in principle), compared with roughly 1 billion in the G-8. Yet two-and-one-half billion people, and notably the poorest of the poor, are not at the table. They are hungry, squeezed by falling incomes, facing massive joblessness as mining and other projects close, and without a voice heard by the rest of the world. Their absence from London cripples the work of the G-20. Only a united world will be able to solve the world-scale challenges that threaten all of us today.”

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Steve Schneider

“The five worst global environmental problems are ignorance, greed, denial, tribalism, and short-term thinking. These are the five psychological horsemem of the environmental apocalypse.”

que genio …..

” O unico misterio do universo e o mais e nao o menos. Percebemos demais as coisas – eis o erro, a duvida. O que existe transcende para mim o que julgo que existe. A realidade e apenas real e nao pensada.”

SOUNDBITES 3

“Do the politicians understand just how
difficult it could be, just how devastating
4, 5, 6 degrees centigrade would be? I
think, not yet.”
Nicholas Stern

SOUNDBITES FROM COPENHAGEN 2

“I’m frustrated, as are many of my
colleagues, that 30 years after the US
National Academy of Sciences issued
a strong warning on CO2 warming, the
full urgency of this problem hasn’t
dawned on politicians and the general
public.”
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research, Germany

SOUNDBITES FROM COPENHAGEN 1

“On any kind of pragmatic timescale, I
think we should see loss of the Amazon
forest as irreversible.”
Chris Jones Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK

“Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeding generations.” Karl Marx