A letter to The Age by someone

Prime Minister Jobn Howard's commitment to work towards a long-term aspirational goal for climate change continues to frustrate many concerned young people such as myself. We are the generation that will have to deal with the dangers that are to come if we do not act now on climate change. The science is changing every week - not for the better - and is increasingly telling us we need to do more immediately. Most of the science suggests that to fully prevent climate change catastrophe we must aim for zero carbon emissions by 2030 (www.beyondzeroemissions.org/). We cannot afford to the complacent, and long-term goals should start straight away. We want real policy action on climate change, not vague assurances nor contrived rhetoric. Please listen, Mr Howard and APEC political leaders, we are the future generation.

My comment on this:

In your dreams man! This is really stupid because as i said in my prevous log, APEC never makes decisions. What they can do at most is to make some agreements. At the moment, the Kyoto Protocol is one such agreement committing nations to take some 'baby' steps along the road to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But a post-such-agreement is desperately needed. I think that's what this man wants because it seems impossible to put it on a policy level.

Also I want to add another humble opinion. To solve the global warming problem, we can't rely on promoting a particular technology to tackle the problem. What we need is to reach an international agreement on that instead of solving it by devoting a great deal of effort individually. Someone has proposed a framework called 'contraction and convergence', for crafting a new protocol. We will see.

PS: We are a generation of extravagance, the awareness of water and waste is the prerequisite to solving the problem. This might not be correct, or totally irrevalent. This is just a thought of mine anyway.