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never learn from past events? Our modern civilisations have never learned from the past whether it is about over-logging/bush clearing/forest fires, flood plain building/coastal erosion/reef destruction allowing more hurricane damage, pollution, over-mining, etc. You name it, we have not learned, so relying on some new technology or tax to save us will not happen in time.

This is not just about energy and resource efficiency, but also about societal changes and the way our society is structured to deal with energy. The public needs a free reign in energy decisions. Environmentalists, protestors and the media have a lot to answer for in over-playing climate change as the ultimate disaster. It turns people off. It is far more appreciable if you do not bang people over the heads with constant dire messages, otherwise people will choose not to hear and care. Climate Change issues have to be re-booted as New Energy Age issues, to highlight green progress in technology and a more efficient society. Instead of setting targets for some far off Climate Change event, implementing a New Energy Age including solar, wind, tidal, hydrothermal programmes with cheaper, smarter recycling and manufacturing projects will naturally bring about a cooler, cleaner environment. Climate Change, like other issues in resources, health, protection, food, education, and production, is in the hands of the rich. Like life-saving drugs that rich corporations won't let poorer nations copy, Climate Change will become a fight between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, unless we adapt to a more sustainable mindset, energy base, and society.

Climate Change is unavoidable and will continue nonetheless even with lower carbon levels. Carbon will always be in the system. It just seems Mother Nature is winning out over Human Nature, but our second nature to defer to the powers-that-be even when they procrastinate has to stop. It is not just about physically adapting to Climate Change, but also adapting our projects, politics, economics, education, and society. Nothing so far has convinced me that we will come out of this unscathed. There are no contingency plans for failure. Our leaders will fail us, whether Kyoto
and its successors get ratified or not, because too much time and money has been wasted trying to satisfy industries at the expense of ordinary people. There is no future thinking on the failure of the Carbon economy, based as it is on an capitalist economy that has just gone

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