World leaders hail Paris climate deal as ‘major leap for mankind’ | Environment | The Guardian

World leaders hail Paris climate deal as ‘major leap for mankind’ | Environment | The Guardian:



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Morning:



Adding this story to tie the blog with the story of King Canute and his attempt at controlling the forces of nature.



You have to love the Guardian, they are the finest example of all things left in the print (or electronic) medium.  I like their daily news summaries they email out, it gives me the "british view" of the world shaded pink.



It's too bad that the leaders of the world aren't promising to do something in real time other then tax and regulate back into a more de-industrial world.  No one we know will be around to see if they succeed, what are the bookmakers saying?



My personal theory is that group deindustrialization has all the stability of any oligopoly, the first country to cheat will benefit the most.  This is what happened to OPEC, now in the final stages of blowing up.  With the OPEC example the smaller producers benefited from the increased price of oil caused by the cartel really profited, mostly at the personal level of the leaders, by cheating on their production quotas.  Similarly a country can cheat industrially with energy consumption.  We will see the next big problem being enforcement with countries that still believe bettering the welfare of their citizens.



Anyway, enough already, I was starting to take things seriously but I remembered - this is the United Nations and that organization is the epitome of useless.



Cheers,



J