Saving Our Planet, We the People

EACH YEAR FOR THE PAST nineteen years the United Nations has had an international environmental conference, the ostensible purpose being to reach international agreement on ways to protect the environment, specifially, how to stop global warming, if that's even possible at this late date. The only problem with the annual U.N. conference is that nothing ever gets done, and this year's version, just now wrapping up in Warsaw, is no different. All the environmental groups, like Greenpeace, are angry, not without reason. The environmental groups claim that the conference is dominated by the fossil fuel industry, which, strangely enough, sponsors the event. Is the wolf in the hen house? The Phillipines believes that the recent super typhoon which destroyed it was caused by glbal warming,which was caused by the wealthy developed countries, like Europe, the United States, Japan, Russia, and China. Small countries effected by weather disasters, including sea level rise, want the industrialized world to pay for their damages, and its easy to understand why. Malaysia is cutting down its forests at a rapid rate. Australia and Japan are only the two latest countries to announce that they intend to slow down on their rate of reduction rate of fossil fuels. World wide, the fossil fuel industry is large and powerful, and seems to have a great deal of influence in most of the world's governments. So,the prospects for saving the planet may be slim to none. Nobody, corporate or governmental, seems willing to make the necessary sacrifices. If anything is ever going to be done, it may require a popular movement, of the people, from the grass roots. Every country in the world is invited to these annusal environmental conferences, but most countries send low ranking representatives, rather than government leaders. This shows a lack of international commitment to the environment. We the people, organizing online, must save our environment. Our governments and corporate masters have no intention of doing so.