You're Officially Fired

As anyone will tell you, hosting a blog requires frequent posts.  And here is the confession:  it is five weeks since I last posted.  I am sorry.  And especially to the many great people who have been reading this blog regularly from all over the world.  Truly gobsmacking that people do (read the blog).  Thanks.

Since the last post though, absolutely nothing has happened to change the very real major catastrophes around the world about which I have written relentlessly:  Climate and those idiots running the economies into a global depression. 

The recent global intercessional meeting s in Bonn (the Bonn Climate talks following on from Durban last year) ended with a complete and utter failure.  This is how it is reported in the USA site:

"Parties in Bonn eventually broke the deadlock and agreed on an agenda that will guide the Durban Platform negotiations through 2015………. It is now very clear that we have a difficult four years ahead of us of negotiating the Durban Platform, an agreement that will bind all nations to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after 2020.  Scientists warned us again in Bonn that the door to avoiding a maximum 2 degrees Celsius global average temperature rise is about to close."

The emphasis is mine. 

But there was a minor advance at the G20 meeting in Mexico, where:

"Mexico, host of the G20 talks this year, passed a law ratifying their COP15 pledges (namely a 30% pollution reduction below business as usual by 2020 and a 50% reduction by 2050)."

Well goody, but that is of course too late.  The carbon emission peak must be well before 2020.  And most countries haven’t even started. 

One event that did happen during my “break” from blogging, was I watched a documentary called  “How to Grow a Planet”.  Fantastic.  In one section it explored the great Oxidation Event, from which much of life was derived.  This occurred about 2.5 – 3 billion years ago.

To cut a long story short, I have always wondered what would happen to mankind when the oxygen / atmosphere is so carbonised that our bodies cannot work properly.  I mean, I don’t really care, I’ll be dead. 

During the show, it illustrated that when there was substantially less oxygen in the air mix (where we are heading!) at the time lived giant insects relative to our size today.  Centipedes a meter long;  dragon flies with four meter wing spans;  giant ants.  You get the picture. 

And it soon became apparent that the end of mankind may not be from a lack of oxygen, but being eaten alive by giant insects.  There are more of them right?  Anyway good luck with that all you little rug rats. 

And which countries will be safer on a relative basis?  Those where the population have already eaten most of the insects (Asia) or killed most of the birdlife (Italy, say) or the fish (just about everywhere).  Those countries working hard to save biodiversity are in trouble.  So which side are you on?