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Ballsy.CLIMATE CHANGE: Northward Ho?
That is perhaps best word to describe a class action lawsuit filed this week in the International Criminal Court in The Hague in Holland against national governments refusing to act on reducing carbon emissions.
The suit was filed by climate activist Danny Bloom who is asking for "US$1 billion dollars in damages on behalf of future generations of human beings on Earth - if there are any"
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Back to Mr. Bloom. His lawsuit seems directly targeted towards such irresponsible nations like Canada that have refused to take this issue seriously. If he wins, Bloom is planning to donate the $1 billion in damages to the Nobel winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
BROOKLIN, Canada, Jan 2 (IPS) - Dan Bloom thinks it's time to figure out how to build self-sustaining cities in the polar regions because climate change will eventually make most of Earth uninhabitable.
These polar cities may be "humankind's only chance for survival if global warming really turns into a worldwide catastrophe in the far distant future," Bloom told IPS.
Bloom isn't a scientist or any other kind of expert. A U.S. citizen in his late fifties living in Taiwan teaching English, he's lived all over the world as a reporter-editor, teacher-translator and author. And now Bloom wants to shake people out their everyday indifference to the great emergency of our age: climate change.
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3 comments:
Tom, always a treat to read your blog posts and to be included in one this time, thank you, sir. -- Danny the Nonexpert.....
How did you find this blog post by Mr Anderson? Do you read DeSmog every day? Good for you. They will learn ya, me lad.
Cheers
DB
A curious thing our Mr Bloom. he explains climate inaction as being caused by herd mentality. Presumably he, the millions of identikit greens following government directed edicts and the dominance of pro AGW media are somehow immune.
But what I particularly like is the idea that when the polar regions (like the Arctic) have warmed sufficiently to be the only regions where the climate remains tolerable we will need special skills to build cities. It's quite easy to believe that he ignores the fact that a warmer Arctic will be easier to build in than trying now.
TDK, a curious thing, indeed. See the images of the polar cities, you will understand better:
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
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