There is no Plan B to the Copenhagen Climate Meeting – Because we do not have a Planet B

However, there is still hope for a good result in Copenhagen December 2009, at least Zhu Qiwen of China Daily is hopeful in his article: “Let Copenhagen’s story of hope continue” an article he wrote after participating in a Global Editor’s Forum “From Kyoto to Copenhagen”.
Some 200 reporters from more than 100 countries had gathered to share information about the dangers of the climate changes caused by pollution of the carbon dioxide emissions.
In general it was obvious that there was a global understanding that something has to be done now!
The greatest fear of the participating country representatives was that the USA would not contribute sufficiently, just as the USA don’t accept and join the Kyoto agreement even though the 1997 Kyoto protocol will not be replaced by a Copenhagen agreement before year 2012.
The USA is even today mainly focused on economy and the financial crisis, as Zhu Qiwen writes: “A key reason why the US has so far shirked its obligations in combating climate change is domestic worry about the cost that may be imposed on its economy”
Let us hope that the United States wake up and realize that the costs of a climate disaster will be even higher if the needed solutions are postponed.