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Perhaps Copenhagen was not a failure

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My wife Erin in the Maine Mountains

Throughout the Copenhagen climate conference there remained hope that some type of universal agreement was going to be met in order to help slow down global warming.

It’s been over a month now since the final day’s of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, an event hailed as a turning point in global warming, but an event which ended without any concrete legislation in place to curb global warming. Despite the scientific facts on the table and their consequences if no action were to be taken, Copenhagen was unable to get past arguments over who is to blame the most for adding gasoline to the fire.

In other words, the world’s biggest polluters walked away with big, fat, greedy smiles on their faces knowing that their battle against the success of this summit was won. Their companies could remain doing exactly what they have been doing with no regard for the scientifically proven long-term effects their practices are causing to our planet.

Or did they win? After exploring several sides of the issue, it appears that the very failure of this climate summit could shine a light on the fact that curbing pollution to lesser levels is not the issue. We could fight this battle against big, stubborn polluters for many years to come and end up exactly in the same place we were when we walked out of Copenhagen.

The solution to this mess can be found in alternative energies that will replace the need for the big polluters. Alternative energies will not only curb emissions, they will nearly eliminate emissions. So, the issue, as far as I can see it, is focusing 100% on creating the best possible alternative energies right now that can be affordable and available to the masses.

Once the big polluters see that there is momentum and profit in the alternative energy sector, they will move faster than they have in decades. So perhaps, Copenhagen was just a reminder that our solutions don’t rest under the nose of the media in glorified summits, but rather through decisive action that will really end the problem, and not simply minimize it.

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