There is a huge dysfunction between the way the average voter comes at these issues and the way policy spokespeople in the corporate, environmental NGO and government worlds often do. And at no time is this more visible than when mega climate/carbon events like Copenhagen come around.
Most people are worried that the planet is under a lot of pressure, and many believe the climate is changing as a result. Considerably fewer have examined the ...
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This is an opinion piece, but that is not surprising in a blog. The author's assertions about "most people" are never supported by data nor, I suspect, are they very accurate. He raises the concept of a "moral issue" but does not support it well, let alone support the argument that such a thing is swaying the public. His central theme, though, is, itself, unsupported. Was Kyoto a success because after Kyoto there was an increase in climate conscious activity? No support for the contention, either of the presence of an increase or the cause thereof. His title, declaring Copenhagen already a success, is undone by his concluding paragraph. If we are not changing quickly enough, then the actions at Copenhagen can hardly be construed as successful. If I hit the brakes too softly to prevent my car from going over the cliff, the fact that I slowed the car down does not amount to a successful braking.
