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Published online 3 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.236
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World leaders fail to kick-start green economy
G20 summit a missed opportunity, say climate campaigners.
Science leaders and environmentalists are disappointed at the lack of focus on climate change and the green economy at yesterday's meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) of the world's richest nations in London.
World leaders agreed to inject US$1.
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G20 - is 20 supposed to be lucky number for Earth!! Why leave out the other countries when we all know that it will take the collective efforts of the entire human race to make a difference.... In general our ignorance for this planet that we call home has surpassed all boundaries. For example in how many instances have you seen Earth being spelled with a capital "E" ? Ignorance is undoubtedly the most fatal human nature that we have around.. God knows how many civilizations have perished as a result.. Is there any certainty that we will not go the way of the Mayans or the Harappans ! At this instance, there are more educated and informed people on the planet than ever .. what more will it take to realize that this is a much greater threat than the periodic crisis that we have going now ? How about we let the other 175 countries to form another group and let them handle the situation, I believe they will certainly be able to come up with better and more effective plans.. after all they have been facing these problems at every level.
Clean-energy technologies will take us a nice world in future.But the leaders have no such forword ideas.It is a pity. Pollution and damage of water resource will give politicians a lesson.
It is NOT developed nations (G20) who are so much affected by climate crisis and the directly affected people belong to developing or underdeveloped nations, so G20 do not seem to care so much. The affected ones are not so strong enough to tell them to stop messing around. All the developed nations like to RULE and REGULATE the planet and then finally this is how they want to do it: 'Our economy and people should be safe, let others die'. BUT, if they get affected, they start looking for ultimate wisdom to stop this and also start crying loud about it, whereas they always ignore the cry of others. They call them civilized nations! It really takes considerable wisdom to include all humans as a part of 'WE', which has never happened on this planet. This is how many civilizations vanished because this 'WE' could not grow in difficult times, but it shrinked and became selfish.