World leaders meet to emit hot air

China has said it will limit the rate of growth of its carbon emissions.

China is the world's biggest carbon emitter. We need to see a drastic decrease, not a slowing of the rate of increase.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8268792.stm

The best we have heard from the US is cuts of a few percent.

US is the world's second biggest carbon emitter. The US has to cut its emissions by at least 40% by 2020.

Added together, China and the US account for nearly 40% of world emissions of carbon.

Some teeny weeny steps in the right direction, but nowhere near enough.

Australia is the world's biggest emitter of carbon per capita. Australia is proposing to increase its emissions. Hazelwood, the world's worst polluting power station, due to be shut down, has now had an increase in life until at least 2031.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437939.html

Canada, already a major polluter, will shoot to the top of the table if tar sands production goes ahead.

The expansion of the tar sands will strip mine an area the size of Florida. Complete with skyrocketing rates of cancer (by 400%!) for First Nations communities living downstream, broken treaties, toxic belching lakes so large you can see them from outer space, churning up ancient boreal forest, destroyed air and water quality, the tar sands have been called the most destructive project on Earth.

 http://understory.ran.org/2009/09/15/breaking-activists-drop-70-banner-off-of-niagra-falls-to-tell-canadian-pm-no-tar-sands-oil/

World leaders are playing a game of poker where economic growth trumps climate change. They forget to check the rules, climate change trumps economic growth.

Sadly many would-be activists are little better. A vociferous minority expend a huge amount of their energy attacking those who are doing something, rather than addressing the real issues themselves.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/438312.html?c=on