Some nations seem to have their priorities right
By Special K
Disassociated Press
July 8, 2009

Reference: Developing Nations Rebuff G-8 on Curbing Pollutants
By PETER BAKER
Published: July 8, 2009
L’AQUILA, Italy — “The world’s major industrial nations and newly emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on specific cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, undercutting an effort to build a global consensus to fight climate change, according to people following the talks . . ..” (emphasis added)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/europe/09prexy.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au

Considering the futility of humans “fight(ing against) climate change”
Building a consensus of any kind, global or local, to do so
Is, by any definition, a highly complex process
That could only be incredibly slow.

Witnessing grown men and women representing national entities
Spend much time and scarce resources to consider such folly
Can only engender in their respective constituencies
A most profound and enduring melancholy.

The process would be sufficiently complex
If the aim were simply “to reduce pollution”,
But if it’s to attain control over the climate
The process is one with no foreseeable resolution.

The developing nations appear to have their priorities right:
They wish to develop as have other nations, i.e., sans undue restriction
On the use of fossil fuels to power internal growth
Imposed to halt “man-made global warming” (a media-abetted fiction
That has been purveyed as “gospel”,
And by many naive folks accepted as such,
But by discerning observers of the media scene
Is recognized as being “just a little bit much”).

Let’s hope that the Senate of the United States
In considering the desirability of the Waxman-Markey (“cap and trade”) bill
Will stop short before approbation
And let sense, not so common there, work its will.