Tuesday 8 December 2009

The fix is in

My love for Scandinavians teeters on the brink: in collusion with the UK and the US, the Danes have circulated a secret document amongst the rich nations to work from during the Copenhagen conference.


  • Kyoto (the only legal agreement on climate change) to be dumped
  • Poor nations to have much lower emissions allowances than rich ones (so the rich, polluting ones can carry on polluting
  • Climate change to be managed via the World Bank (the rich nations' loan shark) rather than the UN
  • Poor nations' environmental strategies to be dictated by the rich ones
We expect the US to resist real change: even with a centrist President, it's a country controlled by a corporate élite. The UK, outside its own borders, is well-known as a manipulative and arrogant state: ministers say cuddly things and their civil servants operate ruthlessly to benefit the UK, even at the expense of the most vulnerable. Denmark, on the other hand, has a reputation as a calm, thoughtful nation. Sure, it's not as relaxed as Sweden, but it should be on the side of the angels. Now it definitely isn't. It's lined up with the usual suspects as yet another group of rich white guys bossing the poorer and darker around.

Business as usual.

1 comment:

Benjamin. said...

Quite disgraceful and I support your views entirely, I sense you are beginning to realise that Scandinavia isn't all it's cracked up to be. Come work with me in a school in London in four years time if the MA at Leeds Uni is successful.

I shall set up an academy for young deaf footballers in the area too, you could attempt to advocate the finer art of fencing and the merits of book-reading.