Sorry 3 (How to fail climate and humanity)

With all good aspirations, which were maybe never really good, with all the great hopes, which were maybe all too naive from the beginning, which all the expertise, which was all too often obviously pressured not be objective, with great and encouraging pilot projects in Denmark and other countries – the summit of Copenhagen failed both the climate and humanity.

Sorry, and – one day later – it wasn’t all that bad, is all the so called leaders of the world have to say. Like the Oeresund Bridge vanishing in the waters of the sea all hope for global efforts on climate change goes down.

The future of change will be local and there our hope will be. The current political systems of the world – from media-dominated democracies to all brands of dictatorship – have one thing in common: their unability to bring credible hope and real change for good. This, I am sorry to say, also includes the US under their not so new president. And it includes the UN and their suborganizations, burning incredible amounts of money for  – nothing. All the attempts to close out civil society from the summit shed a dark light on those structures.

So we have to concentrate on real change that is possible on the local and regional level and strive to make it a reality. Maybe, one day, when it may be too late entirely, also new international structures will emerge.