Saturday, 15th December. Bali, Indonesia. Bianca Jagger, Chair of the World Future Council, said today in Bali: “Leaders of the industrialised nations present in Bali have failed in their moral duty. They have used the US's decision not to sign any specific carbon emissions reduction treaty as an excuse for their own inaction.”
The World Future Council supports Al Gore's suggestion that world leaders should sideline the US and forge ahead to Copenhagen in 2009, with or without US commitment.
Bianca Jagger said, “This clearly demonstrates what the World Future Council is advocating. If we are serious about averting climate change catastrophe, we must think in revol-utionary terms, and transform our way of life, restoring rather than destroying life on earth. We must embark upon a global renewable energy revolution: if we are to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2020, we must replace our carbon-driven economy with a renewable, carbon-absorbing energy economy.”
We have experienced an industrial revolution. We have ex-perienced a technological revolution. It will take a global ren-ewable energy revolution, similar in scale and consequence to those two, to avert catastrophe. As Hermann Scheer, member of the German Bundestag and the World Future Council, said, “This cannot be achieved with the method of 'talk globally postpone nationally,' but only with the method of 'think globally act locally, regionally and nationally.”
Herbie Girardet, co-founder of the World Future Council, said, “To deal with the looming climate tragedy requires us to redirect global money flows on a massive scale: towards mainstreaming renewable energy and towards repairing the capacity of the biosphere to absorb greenhouse gases. We owe it to coming generations to leave them a thriving planet which they, in turn, can pass on intact to their own descendents.”
So far, our politicians have failed the test of leadership. So if this revolution is not to come from them, it must come from us. We know what is at stake, and we know what we can do about it. Now is the time for each of us to act.
The World Future Council is a global forum of 50 respected personalities who give voice to the shared ethical values of citizens world-wide. The Council works closely with policy-makers, civil societies and business to identify and implement best policies to protect the rights of future generations.
For more information on the World Future Council, please visit our website, www.worldfuturecouncil.org. Photos and interview partners are available on request.
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