EU countries may use economic crisis to ditch climate change commitments

If the economy completely collapses and we have to resort to an agrerian(sp?) society, it doesn't really get any "greener" than that. If we have to grow our own food and we can afford to drive cars, the earth will be fine. Problem solved. Anybody know where I can purchase a good mule??

Disaster Capitalism / Shock Doctrine 101

This is getting all soooo predictable ;)

http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/09/now-time-resist-wall-streets-shock-doctrine

Does anyone else see the irony of all this going on right before the election?!

Then who's going to be there to "bail out" the earth? After we have lost everything, she is all we have.

From naturalism to nihilism to feudalism to capitalism to disasterism back to naturalism. It was bound to happen sometime.

ive lost more on paper in 2 months than I made in the last yeas... But the AIG guys can go on vacation.

Wait, khromadjo.
Do you mean a global, "what goes around comes around"?
That makes too much sense.
Stop it.

...and the world goes downhill from here.

Always remember that 85% of all stocks are own by 5% of the population & from that thin slice over 50% of the 85% is own by 1% ...so WTF are we rescuing here except the ruling class's power to terrorize us all over again when they bloody well please ;)

“A banker is a man who loans you umbrellas when the sun is shining and demands it back the moment it looks like rain." Mark Twain

Less money to spend means more things like...factory farming among other things to keep up with demand while keeping prices low.

Although there are much cleaner alternatives to many mass production techniques used in many industries the result is usually higher cost.

Politicians normally lets things like the enviroment and our health etc come second when industries are supplying us with products we can afford because ultimately that's what keeps them in office and us happy.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx

Behind the Panic: Financial Warfare and the Future of Global Bank Power
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10495

We will use our resources to our benefit.Not the next generations.

Like dominoes.

my generations is not going to have any thing left crazy !!! what happened to leaving thing better then the way you fond it ? thx old people

theoneace

I believe and have believed the generations to come are screwed.I told my kids I hope their generation does something cause mine has done little.How can we expect future generations to respect elders when we left them such a mess.

sorry young people

This was just too predictable.. as if the global community of G8 fakers were going to do much of anything to address the climate crisis anyway...their targets are already bogus and full of hot air, no pun intended.The real progress on this will come from US and the private sector, not governments looking to use any excuse to keep the status quo. Looking to them to do anything concrete about it in the first place was a waste of time as they are beyond corruption and greed at this point. Hopefully though, news like this will not make people think that tackling this crisis is not going to happen just because a group of greedy men at a round table don't want to do anything about it. We need to stop looking to these so called leaders who have done nothing but use the system to their own advantage and begin using it for our own.

Bad news central.

I really hate to see the future and what it will be like for the younger generation. we can only hope they will do it better then we did

It's not only going to affect 'the next generation' - all of this financial collapse is proof that it will affect US. All of us on the planet who will still be here in a month, or in a year, and certainly in 10, 20, 30 years, we'll see some enormous changes in consumption, extinction, and health.

What a bunch of imbeciles... The environment should always come before economy... which one is irreplaceable?

I really don't want to have kids with all these fucking morons running the show... there are more important things in life.

Money isn't everything...

/sigh

Well that's a convenient excuse, isn't it.
Grrr.

Agreed. The timing is just right.

Our planet has to be to priority.
no use worrying about money and stocks if we dont have a place to live.
i cant believe the logic of these people. money and greed obviously does not make you smart

The same way the government is using the economic crisis as an excuse to reduce "wasteful spending" on programs that are designed to help the people?

Gee, didn't see that one coming.

Dear modern western society, those responsible for the financial crisis have just pushed us a huge step back.

Seriously, what fucking politician or government worth their salt wouldn't have reduced "wasteful spending" before it started? The same ones that will "rescue" their friends by stealing money from your pocket?

Jesus, these kids are getting really out of hand with the deceptive use of adjectives.

I think we now officially live in upside down world.

So were governments being completely insincere when they agreed that immediate action was needed to SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE ON THIS PLANET?!