UNFCCC Secretary: At This Rate, We’re Not Going to Make It « FUTURISM NOW

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By ShellyT, on September 11th, 2009

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said recently that at the current rate of addressing climate change, we will not make it. “Serious Climate Change is Equal to ‘Game Over’“. It’s assumed by ‘game over’ he means we’ll have to try to survive however we can, but civilization will not be around to help us. These remarks were made at a briefing with the media on the last day of the informal consultations in Bonn, in August 2009. “This is the way to a global disaster,” he said.

Mr. de Boer stressed that “a climate deal in Copenhagen this year is an unequivocal requirement to stop climate change from slipping out of control.

Our next best chance to do something serious: The Secretary-General’s Climate Change Summit in New York on September 22, 2009, presents an opportunity for world leaders to provide clear political guidance and to start mapping out a clear plan. A similar article came out yesterday, so we know we are running out of time, and the major Copenhagen meeting is in December. Here are Yvo de Boer’s statements from earlier this week:

“We need to see that leadership"