World Climate Summit

1,200 Limos, 140 jets, Caviar and Prostitutes. While that does sound like a line out of the trendy musical Rent, it’s actually the benefits given out to those who attend the World Climate Summit in Copenhagen to talk about the issues behind global warming.

Over 2000 delegates, journalists and speakers have shown up to the summit to discuss current trends and future projections about our planet’s health.

I find it rather ironic that people who propose radical changes in lifestyle decisions end up not only doing the same things they are against, but turn it up a notch. I mean come on world leaders, at LEAST carpool your fancy smancy limos.

Besides the fact that they couldn’t fly on commercial airlines (is first class just not good enough these days) and stimulate our dying air travel companies, but then they needed chauffeurs (taxi driver’s have families too) depleting the entire local 200-mile area of its entire fleet of limousines. Only then to be put in $600 dollar rooms filled to the brim with iced caviar wedges and champagne.

The real kicker? As a gift, the local Sex Union- yes prostitution is legal there, I know it’s not fair- has decided to give free intercourse to anyone with a delegate badge.

I guess trying to save the world has its perks.

A lot of people already miffed about the scandal breaking out behind the loss of data by the premiere science group who postulated the dire warnings of climatopalypse (climate + apocalypse) among global leaders and in the film An Inconvenient Truth or now beset under further siege for these devilish dealings of delight being handed their way. In fact, people have actually assembled their own city-funded rally and assembly to promote awareness of the facts that debunk the science. It's like the Hatfields and McCoys hillbilly feud all over again.

Frankly, I see it as just another shred of evidence that no matter what, the system is flawed in the hands of man.

The way I see it, if anything, Al Gore and company went Southern Baptist on the world and got people thinking about the planet and more than just themselves. In this sense I have no problem with the ideas and concepts of living green. Just because we won’t hurt the Earth NOW as opposed to later, doesn’t mean we can’t preserve it for many future generations to come. I see it in the way a doctor would want to treat cancer. Hit it early and hit it hard.

What I don’t like is the gross misuse of persuasion and profiteering these elite fat cats have garnered through fear mongering and selfish gain. I mean if you think about what just a fraction of the money spent in Copenhagen could have done for the rest of the world, we’d be greater than the sum of our people quicker and really shoot for change.

Personally, I’m still going to shop with reusable bags, recycle, find a car that has great MPG to do my part so that my grand kids and their grand kids don’t have to get the ball rolling in their time, but can look back and say thanks to what we started here and now.