Copenhagen...

Ou quando a montanha pariu um rato...

I first would like to show what the newspapers say:
PT: Diário de Notícias
FR: Le Figaro
UK: BBC

When this conference started I said it would end up close to nothing, people called me a pessimist. I answered saying I was being realistic. You know what? I was right...

I do not care if it is global warming, global freezing, or global stupidity. It is clear that we are living in a away that does not take into account that resources are not infinite. Warmer, colder... that's not the point: it is changing, and changing faster than ever.
It is wrong to try to demonstrate that is the CO2, or other pollution to cause it, it is a very difficult scientific task. Lets focus on what is clear, and what is clear is that we're consuming the planet without limits and without considering that resources are limited - I fail to understand how people do not see that we only have ONE planet. It is time to thing at this scale, because it is the scale we're consuming.

I'm not a radical.
I do not defend going back to the dark ages of diseases, starving, or dying for no reason. I'm in favour of being responsible. When I was a child I remember being on the local Carnaval dressed like a fish because my home-town river was dead (or almost). It is not yet solved, but now that we've started treating what we send to the river before, it is now cleaner and fish are enjoying themselves again. This is the level of things we can do.
Lets reduce, recycle and reuse - for serious! This is up to us, but governments have to make it easy! Not travelling for km before finding a centre, it needs to at our houses as they come for other type of residues.
Then, industrially speaking... This is where it is difficult for sure. Not that there are no technical solutions, because there are, but because there more expensive. And we've to be "competitive" apparently... Well, have we?! In terms of EU, we should have extremely high import taxes from polluting countries and/or industries. Problems to export because of retaliation? Well, that's where we'll need to be pragmatic and accept we should focus on our internal EU market (or "green-world" countries).
It is now time for this! Before it was military, political, economical unions; now we need the environment union! Those old borders no longer apply, the world changed. Our values need to endorse the green way of living, otherwise we're lost.
If we export less I recognise we'll have unemployment problems, I'm not stupid (or so I hope). However, I see on this an advantage... (don't shoot me! yet...) Usually, those that massively export are companies where the profits are not distributed anyway, and there is no actual benefit for those working. It is then possible to balance profit and employment, but I do not know how for now - I don't have time to solve all the world problems :)
I believe we may have to go back to a less globalised world, by splitting it again, but with different criteria - environmental friendly criteria.

How do we solve the poor and rich issues?... It is not because you're poor that you're rich, and vice-versa. Actually, the principles I defend, would allow for larger import from some poor countries, since they do not have the industry to pollute. So, I think it is the right way. Note that by consequence I also defend that we would have to apply taxes on EU products since they may come from polluting technologies.

Anyway, it is up to us! We've to decide on buying green, even when that may cost more. It is up to money at the end unfortunately, so we've a word to say...

Now, for the idiots in Copenhagen... I do not think we can achieve a global agreement, that is way I never believed in this conference.
Countries come from so many different contexts and goals that it is just not possible. That is why we need to think in a piecewise solution. For example, in our case, it would be an EU level. Than we could try to do it with the USA, and so on... This is the only way. And by giving the message that this huge economical blocks were only buying green, the poor countries would adapt themselves and produce green to survive. I probably defend that it may be a good idea to provide funding for the poor countries, but not in the way it was agreed, because that is just to buy pollution quotas. If a part of the taxes on "green import" were graven back to poor countries, that sounds like a proper solution.

Lets use the fact that the EU exists and make it stronger in the world with this kind of brave decisions. It is not by always hiding and not willing to take the lead that we'll get there. The USA are to unstable to make serious political agreements, their president may change everything after years, and that is reality. The EU has plenty of problems, but the way it is organised does allow for higher political stability in an international level. Lets use it and be brave, we've just been cowards so far!
And this is why we need a strong EU, and this is why the UK need to stop their ridiculous position where they do not face reality: they are part of Europe and the EU. The X century is gone for a while now...

Lets be brave please! Time is running out!