Today I met what may be the dumbest people to walk the face of the earth. I hate to make a statement like that though, because something tells me every day I will start my journal entry Today I met the dumbest people on earth, and then I will lose credibility. Anyway, banality continues to abound here at the UNFCCC. Surprise, surprise. Today we attended a session hosted by a new conglomerate of stupidity. Oxfam, Greenpeace, WWF, and a whole host of other useless people have bound together to form a new group called Working Group on Climate and Development. Its like when they make a comic book into a movie and all the villains who always worked alone in the book come together for dramatic effect, but together theyre even more bumbling and inefficient and bureaucratic than they were on their own, so even though the super hero is played by some lameass actor he still has no trouble beating them. Well, not exactly like that, but you get the idea. Their theory is that if they band together and be super obnoxious, governments will be unable to ignore them. And I hate to say it, but its true. Its a sad state of affairs when you can have no scientific evidence to back up your claims whatsoever, but can still get legislation passed based on the grounds that you are a nonsensical loudmouth and arent afraid to threaten people. Andrew Simms, the guy who moderated the panel, actually referred to them as the coalition of the slightly pissed off. Nice. He stressed the fact that people dont really seem to care about global warming (duh, maybe because it doesnt exist) but that he and his cohorts were going to push it and make it a mass global issue. If this guy woke up tomorrow and decided aliens were taking over the earth, all his little lackeys would follow him and they would yell and protest until, despite the fact that the skies were UFO-free, some government would pass anti-Martian legislation. And rich people would pay for it because it was their fault the aliens were there to begin with. Another panelist, Sarah Latrobe of Tear Fund, said they care about poor people and are committed to tackling issues important to them." If they really care about helping people then why dont they ask the people what issues are important to them, rather than shoving an agenda down everyones throats? Jennifer from WWF said, We need to work together to create a movement around the world. If people really care about an issue, movements create themselves. If you have to force it its because no one cares. (Im almost done ranting, bear with me here.) Latrobe went on to say that as a society we need to come to terms with the concept of sufficiency. We need to redefine our definition of progress. Most of us are consuming far more than we need. Speak for yourself, you backwards socialist bitch. Its staggering how completely blind these people are to their hypocrisy. The same panel that preaches that we consume too much also joked that if anyone elses cell phone went off during the presentation, that person would be hooked up to several volts of electricity. Gee, I hope they meant solar-powered green electricity.
Tonight we went to yet another reception, this one hosted by the European Union. This marks the third world government that has bought me a drink in as many weeks. Thanks guys. Gotta love traveling with Bureaucrash. The food and drink at this one was way better than last nights. And we got terrific pictures of the monkeys living it up. My favorite features a guy in one of those tweedy jackets with the elbow patches double fisting his beers in the foreground and another guy in a blazer guzzling beer in the background. My second favorite features a guy with a huge mustache and a huge pipe billowing smoke into the air. Doesnt he care about global warming? read more »
