Hopenhagen
As celebrities and heads of state start to show up, pressure on the streets and in the enclaves of climate activists builds in direct proportion to the diminishment of hope for a strong agreement at the Bella Center. Honed over decades of oppositional struggles, activists have been held in check by the knowledge that we are all on the same side, that unlike the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, there is common purpose between negotiators inside the center and protesters out in the cold streets. Were that commonality to be challenged by a deal that compromises developing nations, the whole spirit of events could rapidly change. The good people of Hopenhagen, engrossed in their peaceful preparations for the coming holiday, should keep hope in their hearts…that things end well at COP 15.
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David Simpson, Jane Lapiner and Dan Ihara are covering the United Nations Conference on Climate Change for the North Coast Journal. For a photo gallery from the last week of conference proceedings, visit northcoastjournal.com.
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Comment / By unanonymous / Dec. 17, 2009, 8:02 a.m.
Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions getting started in the Phillipines will continue to show the predictions of climate scientists are not very accurate.
Holding of suspects for a period without charges is not peculiar to Denmark, it is pretty widespread across Europe. I believe it is the difference between common law and US constitutional law.